Genitive

jen′i-tiv, adj. ( gram. ) applied to a case properly denoting the cla or kind to which a thing belongs, represented in modern English by the po e ive case.— adj. Genitī′val . [L. genitivus ( gignĕre , genitum , to beget), as if indicating origin, a mistranslation of Gr. genikos — genos , a cla .]