vocative

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ˈvɑkətɪv/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈvɒkətɪv/

Adjective

vocative

1. Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
2. (grammar) 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"

Related terms

• vocal

Translations

• French: vocationnel
• Russian: призыва́ющий

Translations

• French: vocatif
• Portuguese: vocativo
• Russian: зва́тельный
• Spanish: vocativo

Noun

vocative (plural vocatives)

1. (grammar) The vocative case
2. (grammar) A word in the vocative case
3. (rare) Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 50:

     [T]he two latter will hardly come neither, if they think it will be to hear your whining vocatives.

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