case

[nCase]

a grammatical feature in many languages used to distinguish nouns by their syntax in relation to the verb of the sentence; in Latin and Greek this feature occurs on most nouns by means of a suffix, e.g., “Roma” vs. “Romae;” vs. “Romam;” cf. Chapter 1, §3, ¶3 & Chapter 3, §1, ¶6; in Indo-European languages the form of the suffixes showing c. are determined by the nouns membership in a declension or typical pattern; cf. agreement; Latin has the following cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, ablative, locative