different between vocational vs vocative
vocational
English
Etymology
vocation +? -al
Adjective
vocational
- Of or pertaining to a vocation.
- (of education) That provides a special skill rather than academic knowledge.
Derived terms
Translations
vocational From the web:
- what vocational school
- what vocational training means
- what vocational jobs pay the most
- what vocational means
- what vocational nurse does
- what vocational education
- what vocational rehabilitation services
- what vocational jobs are in demand
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
vocative From the web:
- what's vocative text
- vocative meaning
- what's vocative examples
- what does evocative mean
- what is vocative case
- what is vocative case in latin
- what is vocative case of noun
- what does vocative mean in latin
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