different between title vs vocative
title
English
Etymology
From Middle English title, titel, from Old English titul (“title, heading, superscription”), from Latin titulus (“title, inscription”). Doublet of tilde, tittle, and titulus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ta?tl?/
- Rhymes: -a?t?l
- Hyphenation: ti?tle
Noun
title (plural titles)
- A prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification. See also Category:Titles
- (law) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.
- In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.
- A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
- The name of a book, film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.
- A publication.
- A section or division of a subject, as of a law or a book.
- (chiefly in the plural) A written title, credit, or caption shown with a film, video, or performance.
- (bookbinding) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.
- The subject of a writing; a short phrase that summarizes the entire topic.
- A division of an act of law
- (sports) The recognition given to the winner of a championship in sports.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:title
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
title (third-person singular simple present titles, present participle titling, simple past and past participle titled)
- (transitive) To assign a title to; to entitle.
Translations
Anagrams
- t-lite
German
Pronunciation
Verb
title
- inflection of titeln:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
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vocative
English
Etymology
From Late Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Middle French vocatif, from Latin voc?t?vus (“for calling”); a calque of Ancient Greek ??????? (kl?tik?, “for calling; vocative case”) – from voc?re (“to call”), from Proto-Indo-European *wok?-, o-grade of *wek?- (“give vocal utterance, speak”). See Latin v?x.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?v?k?t?v/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?v?k?t?v/
Adjective
vocative (comparative more vocative, superlative most vocative)
- Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
- (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
Noun
vocative (plural vocatives)
- (grammar) The vocative case
- (grammar) A word in the vocative case
- (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.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 50:
Translations
See also
- interjection
Italian
Adjective
vocative
- feminine plural of vocativo
Latin
Adjective
voc?t?ve
- vocative masculine singular of voc?t?vus
References
- vocative in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vocative in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Romanian
Noun
vocative n pl
- plural of vocativ
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