vocative

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
• Used in address; appellative (said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed). For example "Domine, O Lord"

Noun

• The vocative case
• A word in the vocative case
• Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation.

Origin

• From Late Middle English, borrowed from Middle French vocatif, from Latin vocātīvus ("for calling"); a calque of Ancient Greek κλητῐκή – from voco, from Proto-Indo-European, o-grade of *wekʷ-. See Latin vōx.