On the Pelican
Latin Grammar: The Genitive Case
Insuper etiam consideres quam excellenti modo anima tua sumpto hoc dono vivificatur in vitam aeternaliter permanentem: sicut pulliculus pellicani vivificatur ex sanguine cordis paterni."
In the passage above, both cordis and paterni are in the genitive case, which indicates possession and can often be translated with the preposition of. In English, the apostrophe is also used to indicate possesion and the genitive case (i.e. the society's or the peoples'). Nouns in Latin are defined by their nominative singular form, their genitive singular form, and their gender. The genitive indicates how to form the rest of the noun's cases. Identify the genitive form from the following dictionary entries.