ablative

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Etymology

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

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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

• ablativity

Translations

obsolete: taking away

Japanese: 奪格の(だっかくの, dakkakuno)

applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language

Bulgarian: творителен (падеж) (bg) Esperanto: ablativa (eo) Finnish: ablatiivinen (fi) French: ablatif (fr) German: ablativisch (de)

Greek: αφαιρετικός (el) (afairetikós) f. Italian: ablativo (it) m. Manx: gowaltagh (gv) Portuguese: ablativo (pt)

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Interlingua: ablative

Novial: ablativi (adj.) Vietnamese: cách công cụ

Noun

ablative (plural ablatives)

1. (grammar) The ablative case.

Translations

(grammar) the ablative case

Armenian: բացառական (hy) (bac’aṙakan) Bosnian: ablativ (bs) m. Catalan: ablatiu, m. Croatian: ȁblativ (hr) m. Dutch: ablatief (nl) m. Esperanto: ablativo (eo) Estonian: alaltütlev (et), ablatiiv (et) Finnish: ablatiivi (fi) French: ablatif (fr) m. Georgian: მოქმედებითი (ka) German: Ablativ (de) m.

Greek: αφαιρετική (el) f. Icelandic: sviftifall (is) n. Ido: ablativo (io) Italian: ablativo (it) m. Latin: casus ablativus (la) m. Manx: gowaltagh (gv) m. Polish: ablatyw (pl) m. Spanish: ablativo (es) m. Swedish: ablativ (sv) Turkish: ayrılma (tr) hâli/durumu, çıkma (tr) hâli/durumu, -den hâli/durumu

Derived terms

• ablative absolute

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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Italian

Adjective

ablative f.

1. Feminine plural form of ablativo

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Latin

Adjective

ablative

1. vocative masculine singular of ablativus