adjective

1. Gram. designating, of, or in the case of the direct object of a finite verb: also sometimes used of the objective case in English
2. accusatory

Etymology: ME acusatif < L accusativus < accusare, accuse: L mistransl. (by Priscian) of Gr grammatical term correctly rendered causativus, causative: the goal or end point of an action was orig. considered to be its cause

noun

1. the accusative case
2. a word in this case