| 单词 | ethical dative |
| 释义 | > as lemmasethical dative ethical dative n. [after post-classical Latin dativus ethicus (see ethic dative n. at ethic n. and adj. Compounds)] Grammar = ethic dative n. at ethic n. and adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > dative > ethic dative ethic dative1837 ethical dative1849 1849 L. Schmitz tr. K. G. Zumpt Gram. Lat. Lang. (ed. 3) 212 This kind of dative, which occurs still more frequently in Greek, is called the Ethical Dative [L. dativus ethicus]. 1886 Athenæum 7 Aug. 169/3 We cannot go with him in defending the MS. ‘tibi’..as an ethical dative. 1907 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 28 150 The prepositional object of a verb may be either a direct object or an ethical dative. 2003 M. von Albrecht Cicero's Style 60 Another hallmark of emotional speech is an abundant use of the ethical dative. < as lemmas |
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