LOCATIVE


Meaning of LOCATIVE in English

/lok"euh tiv/ , Gram.

adj.

1. (in certain inflected languages) noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place in or at which, as Latin domi "at home."

n.

2. the locative case.

3. a word in that case.

[ 1795-1805; LOCATE + -IVE, on the model of vocative ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .