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Date: 1400-1500
Language: Old French
Origin: vocatif, from Latin vocativus, from vocare; VOCATION

vocative

 noun
     
Related topics: Grammar
voc‧a‧tive [countable]
technical a word or particular form of a word used to show that you are speaking or writing directly to someone
—vocative adjective
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