genetivus
Genetivus is a term used in Latin grammar and historical linguistics to denote the genitive case, a grammatical form that marks a relationship such as possession, origin, or description between nouns. The word derives from Latin genetivus and is used in scholarly descriptions to label the genitive across languages that employ a case system.
In Latin, the genetivus expresses possession (for example, liber patris, the book of the father), partitive relations
Beyond Latin, genetivus is used in linguistic descriptions of other languages that have genitive-like constructions. In
In contemporary grammar, the term genetivus remains chiefly a tool of philology and language description. It
See also: Genitive case, Latin grammar, Case (linguistics), Declension.