Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - accusative

n. & adj. Gram. --n. the case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives, expressing the object of an action or the goal of motion. --adj. of or in this case. Derivatives accusatival adj. accusatively adv. Etymology: ME f. OF accusatif -ive or L (casus) accusativus, transl. Gk (ptosis) aitiatike