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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.



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"Ablative" Quotes from Famous Books



... translating, let the sentence ever be whole and open, for the words owe to serve to the intent and sentence, and else the words be superfluous either false. In translating into English, many resolutions may make the sentence open, as an ablative case absolute may be resolved into these three words, with covenable verb, the while, for, if, as grammarians say; as thus, the master reading, I stand, may be resolved thus, while the master readeth, I ...
— Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse • Various

... Subjunctive Active, the endings -is, -imus, -itis are now marked long. The theory of vowel length before the suffixes -gnus, -gna, -gnum, and also before j, has been discarded. In the Syntax I have recognized a special category of Ablative of Association, and have abandoned the original doctrine as to the force ...
— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett



Words linked to "Ablative" :   ablate, oblique case, linguistics, oblique, subtractive



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