Topic: GRAMMAR
| Date: | 1400-1500 |
| Language: | Latin |
| Origin: | dativus 'of giving', from dare 'to give' |
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da‧tive
[countable usually singular]
[countable usually singular]SL a particular form of a noun in some languages such as Latin and German, which shows that the noun is the indirect object of a verb

