°case of address, case used for a noun identifying the person or thing being addressed. It corresponds to the archaic English
particle "
O" as used in solemn or poetic address:
Hear me, O Albion! Languages that regularly employ the vocative include
Arabic,
Czech,
Greek,
Hawaiian,
Hindi,
Latin,
Lithuanian,
Ojibwe,
Polish,
Romanian,
Sanskrit,
Serbo-Croatian, and
Ukrainian .