- (in certain inflected languages, as Latin, Greek, and German) noting a case having as a distinctive function indication of the indirect object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions.
- the dative case.
- a word or form in that case, as Latin regi in regi haec dicite meaning “tell this to the king.”
- denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives used to express the indirect object, to identify the recipients, and for other purposes
- the dative case
- a word or speech element in this case
