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dativus

dativus · adj

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Where it lives

Institutio Oratoria 4 · 0.23/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

dătīvus — Lewis & Short

dătīvus, a, um, adj.do,

I of or belonging to giving, given, appointed.—

I In jurid. Lat.: dativi tutores "qui nominatim testamento dantur," Gai. Inst. 1, § 149.—

II In gram.: dativus casus, or absol. da-tivus, i, m., the dative, Quint. 1, 7, 18; 7, 9, 13; Gell. 4, 16, 3 et saep. (cf. casus dandi, Varr. L. L. 8, 18, 112; 10, 2, 165; Nigid. ap. Gell. 13, 25, 4; Gell. 4, 16, 4 al.).

In the wild

datiuum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.7.18
dativis Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.7.17
dativo Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes praef.p55
dativus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 4.16.3
dativi Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.4.26
dativo Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 7.9.13

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Where it came from

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