cognate accusatives

Noun

cognate accusative (plural cognate accusatives)

1. An object of kindred sense or derivation; specifically, that which may adverbially follow an intransitive verb (for example, the word death in “to die the death”).
   • These accusatives cognate are to be translated into English.1856, John Day Collis, “Division III. Exercises on the Commonest Rules of Greek Syntax.”, in Praxis Græca. A Series of Elementary, Progressive, and Miscellaneous Questions and Exercises on Greek...

   Synonyms:

   cognate object