1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Accusative
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ACCUSATIVE (Lat. accusativus, sc. casus, a translation of the Gr. αἰτιατικὴ πτῶσις, the case concerned with cause and effect, from αἰτία, a cause), in grammar, a case of the noun, denoting primarily the object of verbal action or the destination of motion.