"evitative case" meaning in English

See evitative case in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: evitative cases [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} evitative case (plural evitative cases)
  1. (grammar) The grammatical case that is evitative. Categories (topical): Grammar
    Sense id: en-evitative_case-en-noun-7~QHvQeU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "evitative cases",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "evitative case (plural evitative cases)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Grammar",
          "orig": "en:Grammar",
          "parents": [
            "Linguistics",
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The grammatical case that is evitative."
      ],
      "id": "en-evitative_case-en-noun-7~QHvQeU",
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "case",
          "case"
        ],
        [
          "evitative",
          "evitative"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) The grammatical case that is evitative."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "evitative case"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "evitative cases",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "evitative case (plural evitative cases)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Grammar"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The grammatical case that is evitative."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "case",
          "case"
        ],
        [
          "evitative",
          "evitative"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) The grammatical case that is evitative."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "evitative case"
}

Download raw JSONL data for evitative case meaning in English (0.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-02 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (db8a5a5 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.