Dative case

The dative case is a case that prototypically marks the recipient of ditransitive verbs of transfer such as 'give'.

Polysemy

 * dative (semantic role)
 * dative transformation

Origin
The term dative goes back to antiquity. It is derived from Latin (cāsus) datīvus 'case of giving' (cf. dare 'give', which itself is a calque of Greek (ptóòsis) dotikée.