English

Etymology

French ablatif , ablative, Latin ablativus from ablatus . See Ablation

Adjective

1. (Obsolete): Taking away or removing

   Quotation

   • Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth - Bp. Hall

2. (Grammar): 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.

Translations

• Dutch: ablatief m
• Finnish: ablatiivi
• French: ablatif m
• German: ablativ m
• Interlingua: ablative
• Italian: ablativo
• Japanese: 奪格 (だっかく, dakkaku)
• Portuguese: ablativo
• Spanish: ablativo m

Noun

1. (Grammar): The ablative case.

Derived Terms

• 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".