单词 | genitive absolute |
释义 | > as lemmasgenitive absolute genitive absolute n. [after post-classical Latin genitivus absolutus (1549 or earlier)] Grammar (in ancient Greek) a construction consisting of a noun (or pronoun) and a participle both in the genitive case, being grammatically independent of the main clause and expressing the time, occasion, or circumstance of a fact stated.Similar to the Latin ablative absolute. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > genitive > genitive absolute genitive absolute1647 1611 A. Willet Hexapla: Rom. ii. 100 For in the original it is put absolutely in the genitiue.] 1647 R. Hollingworth Rejoynder to S. Eaton 63 A Genitive absolute..should take away the necessary dependance which the infinitive hath on the verb. 1788 J. Moffat tr. Hippocrates Prognostics & Prorrhetics ii. 163 The genitive absolute, which does not, in the smallest degree, affect the sense. 1860 W. W. Goodwin Syntax Greek Verb vi. 297 We sometimes find the Participle in the Genitive Absolute with ὡς. 1970 German Q. 43 253 The accusative absolute is found also in Gothic where it frequently translates the Greek genitive absolute. 2011 A. J. Hultgren Paul's Let. to Romans ii. 111 The entire clause involves a genitive absolute construction. < as lemmas |
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