Associations to the word «Locative»

Wiktionary

LOCATIVE, adjective. (grammar) Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein.
LOCATIVE, noun. (grammar) The locative case.
LOCATIVE CASE, noun. (grammar) A case used to indicate place, or the place where, or wherein. It corresponds roughly to the English prepositions "in", "on", "at", and "by". Languages that use the locative case include Armenian, Azeri, Belarusian, Catalan, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Dyirbal, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Quechua, Russian, Sanskrit, Slovak, Slovene, Swahili, Turkish and Ukrainian. Some languages use the same locative case construct to indicate when, so the English phrase "in summer" would use the locative case construct.
LOCATIVE CASES, noun. Plural of locative case

Dictionary definition

LOCATIVE, noun. The semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope