Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case expressing means, as Finnish puhumalla “by speaking, while speaking.”
- noun The adessive case.
- noun A word in the adessive case.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In grammar, a syntactic case expressing position at some spot or locality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective grammar of or relating to the grammatical
case that in some languages indicates adjacent location. - noun grammar the
adessive case , or a word in that case.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Latin adesse, to be present : ad-, ad- + esse, to be; see es- in Indo-European roots.]
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