"Genitive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gxemo. Gendarme gxendarmo. Gender sekso. Genealogy genealogio. General gxenerala. General (milit.) generalo. Generate produkti, naski. Generation generacio. Generosity malavareco. Generous malavara. Genial bonvola. Genitive genitivo. Genius genio. Genteel gxentila. Gentle dolcxa. Gentleman sinjoro. Gently dolcxe. Genuflect genufleksi. Genuine vera. Genus gento. Geography geografio. Geology geologio. Geometry geometrio. Geranium geranio. Germ gxermo. German Germano. German ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... by "vixit," or "vixit in saeculo," "annos" (or "annis") "menses," "dies" (or "diebus") ——, with the number of hours sometimes stated. Sometimes "qui fuit" stands for "vixit;" sometimes neither is expressed, and we have the form in the genitive, "sal. ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy
... used to let in any sort of bounder that asked! Look round you and see. That's the sort of lot I let in. It won't wash, though. Fancy having a lot of outsiders who can't translate a Latin motto, and make 'corpore' a feminine genitive! Now old Warminster's a nailer at Latin, and can put one or two of us to bed at Euclid. He'll keep us out of blunders of that sort, that make all the school grin at us. I therefore propose, fifth, fourth, third, and second, that Tip. Warminster ...
— Tom, Dick and Harry • Talbot Baines Reed
... least what appears to the moderns fanciful, arrangement of the cases amongst grammarians, may be dispensed with for the present. The idea, that the nominative is a direct, upright case, and that the genitive declines with the smallest obliquity from it; the dative, accusative, and ablative, falling further and further from the perpendicularity of speech, is a species of metaphysics not very edifying to a child. Into what absurdity ...
— Practical Education, Volume II • Maria Edgeworth
... whether to consider "proof" an adjective belonging to "pillars," or a substantive in apposition with it. All the commentators seem to have passed the line without observation. I am almost afraid to suggest that we should read "pillars'" in the genitive plural, "proof" being taken in the ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 • Various
... of this matter, I answer up confidently and state in German that the bird is staying in the blacksmith shop "wegen (on account of) DEN Regen." Then the teacher lets me softly down with the remark that whenever the word "wegen" drops into a sentence, it ALWAYS throws that subject into the GENITIVE case, regardless of consequences—and therefore this bird stayed in the blacksmith shop "wegen ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... to the oblique cases, especially in nouns imparasyllabic, when we have an antient term transmitted to us either from the Greeks or Romans. The nominative, in both languages, is often abridged; so that, from the genitive of the word, or from the possessive, the original term is to be deduced. This will be found to obtain even in common names. From veteris we have veter for the true term; from sanguinis we have sanguen: and that this is ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant |
