Word.ws English Dictionary

comitative cases

comitative cases is the plural of comitative case.

Meaning of comitative case

Noun

comitative case (plural comitative cases)

  1. Noun case used to denote companionship. In English, this is usually expressed by the prepositional phrase in company with, together with or with, as in "with the house." Languages that use the comitative case include Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Inari Sami, Northern Sami, Skolt Sami, and Quechua. It is also found in many Australian Aboriginal languages, where it is commonly used to form names of places and languages.

Questions about comitative cases

What is comitative cases the plural of?
Comitative cases is the plural of comitative case.

Words near comitative cases in the dictionary

  1. comital
  2. comitant
  3. comitati
  4. comitative
  5. comitative case
  6. comitative cases
  7. comitatively
  8. comitatives
  9. comitativity
  10. comitatus
  11. comitatuses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: comitative cases (page history and authors); comitative case (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “comitative cases.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/comitative_cases. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.