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Ablative Definition

ablative

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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

ablative (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Taking away or removing.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Joseph Hall
      Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth.
  2. (grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.
  3. (engineering, nautical) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying, as in ablative paints used for antifouling.

Derived terms

Noun

ablative (plural ablatives)

  1. (grammar) The ablative case.

Translations

(grammar) the ablative case

Derived terms

Shorthand

Italian

Adjective

ablative f.

  1. Feminine plural form of ablativo

Latin

Adjective

ablative

  1. vocative masculine singular of ablativus

 

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