Taking or tending to take away; tending to remove; pertaining to ablation.

In grammar, noting removal or separation: applied to a case which forms part of the original declension of nouns and pronouns in the languages of the Indo-European family, and has been retained by some of them, as Latin, Sanskrit, and Zend, while in some it is lost, or merged in another case, as in the genitive in Greek. It is primarily the from-case.

Pertaining to or of the nature of the ablative case: as, an ablative construction.

noun. In grammar, short for ablative case. See ablative, adjective, 2. Often abbreviated to abl.

adjective. Taking away or removing.

adjective. 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 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.

adjective. relating to the ablative case

adjective. tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature

noun. the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb

"This is clearly an ablative relation, and the construction is called the «ablative of the measure of difference»."

ablative absolute  

subtractive  

ablative absolute  ablativity  

oblique  oblique case  

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