Editing Dative case (section)

==Etymology==
"Dative" comes from [[Latin]] ''cāsus datīvus'' ("case for giving"), a translation of Greek δοτικὴ πτῶσις, ''dotikē ptôsis'' ("inflection for giving").<ref>{{LSJ|dotiko/s|δοτικός|ref}}</ref> [[Dionysius Thrax]] in his [[Art of Grammar]] also refers to it as ''epistaltikē&#769;'' "for sending (a letter)",<ref>Dionysius Thrax. [http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/graeca/Chronologia/S_ante02/DionysiosThrax/dio_tech.html τέχνη γραμματική] (Art of Grammar), section ιβ´ (10b): περὶ ὀνόματος (On the noun). Bibliotheca Augustana.</ref> from the verb ''epistéllō'' "send to", a word from the same root as [[epistle]].