genitive

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses a quality, origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.

Noun

• An inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession.
• A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession.

Origin

• From Renaissance Latin cāsus genitīvus (also spelled cāsus genetīvus), from genitus, the perfect passive participle of gignō.