English

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

Pronunciation
audio|en-us-ablative.ogg|Audio (US)

Adjective
ablative

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

1. grammar Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, such as German, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.

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ttbc|Interlingua: ablative
ttbc|Italian: ablativo
ttbc|Japanese: 奪格 (����, dakkaku)
ttbc|Novial: ablativi (adj.)
ttbc|Portuguese: ablativo
ttbc|Vietnamese: cách công cụ

Noun
en-noun

1. grammar The ablative case.

Translations

Bosnian: t-|bs|ablativ|m
Catalan: ablatiu, m
Croatian: t-|hr|ablativ|m
Dutch: ablatief m
Finnish: t+|fi|ablatiivi
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French: ablatif m
German: t-|de|ablativ|m
Greek: t|el|α�αι�ε�ική|f|sc=Grek
Icelandic: t+|is|sviftifall|n
Spanish: t+|es|ablativo|m

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"; so, "When Tarquinius was king, Pythagoras came".

Shorthand
(Version: Centennial, Series 90, DJS,Simplified): a - b - l - a - t - v
(Version: Anniversary,Pre-Anniversary): a - b - l - a - dev

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