genitive

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of a grammatical case: in an inflected language (such as Greek or Latin), expressing that a thing denoted by a word is related to a thing denoted by another word as its origin or possessor; and in an uninflected language (such as English), expressing origin or possession; possessive.

   “dependent genitive”

   “independent genitive”

   “The student who had taken a German exam realised his error afterwards. He had used the dative case instead of the genitive case to show possession.”

   “[T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.”

   “Nouns Subſtantive have five Declenſions or forms of ending thir Caſes, chiefly diſtinguiſht by the different ending of thir Genitive Singular. […] The firſt [declension] is vvhen the Genitive and Dative ſingular end in æ, &c., […]”

2. (not-comparable)Of, pertaining to, or used in the genitive case.
3. (archaic, not-comparable)Of or pertaining to the generation of offspring; generative, procreative, reproductive.

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of genitive case (“a grammatical case used to express a relationship of origin or possession”).

   “Nounes, Pronounes, and Participles are declin'd vvith ſix Endings, vvhich are called Caſes, both in the Singular and Plural Number. The Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accuſative, Vocative, and Ablative. […] The Genitive is Engliſht vvith this Sign of, as Libri of a Book.”

2. (countable)A word inflected in the genitive case, and which thus indicates origin or possession.

   “This one vvord familia joyn'd vvith pater, mater, filius, or filia, endeth the Genitive in as, as pater familias, but ſomtimes familiæ.”

   “This older kind of genetive [i.e., the direct genetive] is apparently expressed only by the position of the two substantives, in which the governing word stands before the governed: pr:Z1-i-mn:n-A40 pr i̓mn "House of Amon."”