genitive absolute

Meanings

1. an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
2. in Ancient Greek, more frequent than the accusative absolute and the nominative absolute
3. in Sanskrit later to the locative absolute
4. in Avestan
5. in Armenian
6. in Tocharian, not so common
7. in Middle Dutch, early modern Dutch and (vestigially) modern Dutch
8. rarely in Middle High German

Etymology

Calque of Latin genitīvus absolūtus.