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The genitive case. Genitive absolute, a construction in Greek similar to the ablative absolute in Latin. See Ablative absolute.

Parthenogenetic.

Having the love of offspring; fond of children.

The love of offspring; fondness for children.

Primogeniture. [Obs.] The primogenitive and due of birth. Shak.

e. Construct form or state (Heb. Gram.), that of a noun used before another which has the genitive relation to it.

Possessing genitive from; pertaining to, or derived from, the genitive case; as, a genitival adverb. -- Gen`i*ti"val*ly, adv.

Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive.

taining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case (Eng. Gram.), the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the pear's flavor; the dog's faithfulness. -- Possessive pronoun, a prono…

An adverbial suffix; as in towards, needs, always, -- originally the genitive, possesive, ending. See -'s.