vocative

Relating to, characteristic of, or used in calling.

Of, relating to, or being a grammatical case in certain inflected languages that indicates the person or thing being addressed.

The vocative case.

A word or form in the vocative case.

Relating to the act of calling or addressing by name; eompellative: applied to the grammatical case in which a person or thing is addressed: as, the vocative case.

In grammar, the ease employed in calling to or addressing a person or thing: as, Domine, ‘O Lord,’ is the vocative of the Latin dominus.

Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling; specifically (Gram.), used in address; appellative; — said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed.

The vocative case.

Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.

used in address; appellative; — said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed; as, Domine, O Lord.