Definition of "vocatives" []

• Plural form of vocative. (noun)

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• "To be honest, I figured this had to be a joke — a symbol that looks exactly like a face yelling something being used in vocatives (an expression identifying the addressee)?"
• "In most of the letters, romance remains not so much an undercurrent as a charming above-ground stream of salutations and vocatives: she is his “Darling,” he her “dear boy.”"
• "Either way, it's irrelevant to the question of whether Etruscan nouns in -i can become Latin nouns in -us (particularly via their corresponding vocatives in -e) as is already hinted by the examples of Latin nominative names Titus and Marcus (with vocatives Tite and Marce) versus Etruscan Tite and Marce (functioning at once as nominative, accusative and vocative)."