ablative
n. (Grammar) grammatical case that indicates direction or location or agency (such as "at home" adj. (Grammar) of or pertaining to the ablative case (used to indicate direction, location, or agency) | ||||
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Ablative Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Ablative
The ablative case.
(a.)
Taking away or removing.
(a.)
Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.
The ablative case.
(a.)
Taking away or removing.
(a.)
Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.
| WordNet 2.0 |
ablative
Noun
1. the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb
(synonym) ablative case
(hypernym) oblique, oblique case
Adjective
1. relating to the ablative case
(pertainym) ablative case
(classification) linguistics
2. tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature; "ablative material on a rocket cone"
(similar) subtractive
Noun
1. the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb
(synonym) ablative case
(hypernym) oblique, oblique case
Adjective
1. relating to the ablative case
(pertainym) ablative case
(classification) linguistics
2. tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature; "ablative material on a rocket cone"
(similar) subtractive
| hEnglish - advanced version |
ablative
ablative
\ab"la*tive\ (&?;), a. [f. ablatif, ablative, l. ablativus fr. ablatus. see ablation.]
1. taking away or removing. [obs.] where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. hall.
2. (gram.) applied to one of the cases of the noun in latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.
ablative
\ab"la*tive\, (gram.) the ablative case.
ablative
absolute, a construction in latin, in which a noun in the ablative case has a participle (either expressed or implied), agreeing with it in gender, number, and case, both words forming a clause by themselves and being unconnected, grammatically, with the rest of the sentence; as, tarquinio regnante, pythagoras venit, i. e., tarquinius reigning, pythagoras came.
similar words(1)
ablative absolute
ablative
\ab"la*tive\ (&?;), a. [f. ablatif, ablative, l. ablativus fr. ablatus. see ablation.]
1. taking away or removing. [obs.] where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. hall.
2. (gram.) applied to one of the cases of the noun in latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.
ablative
\ab"la*tive\, (gram.) the ablative case.
ablative
absolute, a construction in latin, in which a noun in the ablative case has a participle (either expressed or implied), agreeing with it in gender, number, and case, both words forming a clause by themselves and being unconnected, grammatically, with the rest of the sentence; as, tarquinio regnante, pythagoras venit, i. e., tarquinius reigning, pythagoras came.
similar words(1)
ablative absolute
Ablative Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia |
Ablative case
For the physical process, see ablation. For the spacecraft technology, see ablative armor.
In linguistics, ablative case (abbreviated ABL) is a name given to cases in various languages whose common thread is that they mark motion away from something, though the details in each language may differ. The name "ablative" is derived from the Latin ablatus, the (irregular) past participle of auferre "to carry away".
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