Meaning

2 senses
  1. The ablative case.

  2. An ablative material.

More definitions
  • the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The ablative plural of "rosa" is "rosis".

    deDer Ablativ Plural von „rosa“ lautet „rosis“. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Different verbs can have objects in the accusative or a different case (e.g. the dative or the ablative).

  3. In Latin, there are six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, and vocative.

    ruВ латинском языке шесть падежей: номинатив, генитив, датив, аккузатив, аблатив и вокатив. — marafon

    deIm Lateinischen gibt es die sechs Kasus Nominativ, Genitiv, Dativ, Akkusativ, Ablativ und Vokativ. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From Middle English ablative, ablatife, ablatyf, ablatif, from Old French ablatif (“the ab

From Middle English ablative, ablatife, ablatyf, ablatif, from Old French ablatif (“the ablative case”), from Latin ablātīvus (“expressing removal”), from ablātus (“taken away”), from auferō (“to take away”). The engineering/nautical sense originates from ablate + -ive.

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Forms

plural: ablatives

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb:ablative case

Word family

5 related words

See also

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