<p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>(In certain inflected languages, as Latin, Greek, and German) Noting a case having as a distinctive function indication of the indirect object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>The dative case.</li><li>A word or form in that case, as Latin <em>regi</em> in <em>regi haec dicite</em> meaning “tell this to the king.”</li></ul>