• In Latin grammar, the ablative case (cāsus ablātīvus) is one of the six noun cases. Traditionally, it is the sixth case (cāsus sextus, cāsus latīnus)...
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    The word "ablative" derives from the Latin ablatus, the (suppletive) perfect, passive participle of auferre "to carry away". The ablative case is found...
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  • A complete Latin noun declension consists of up to seven grammatical cases: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative and locative...
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    of Latin. Ablative Absolute from Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar Ablative Absolute by William Harris A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language;...
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    singular, Latin regularly shortens a vowel before final m. In the ablative singular, -d was regularly lost after a long vowel. In the dative and ablative plural...
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    Ablation (redirect from Ablative cooling)
    vaporization, chipping, erosive processes, or by other means. Examples of ablative materials are described below, including spacecraft material for ascent...
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    puero being the ablative form. A few adpositions, however, govern a noun in the genitive, such as gratia and tenus. A regular verb in Latin belongs to one...
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    give a superlative meaning. Classical Latin used the ablative absolute, but as stated above, in Medieval Latin examples of nominative absolute or accusative...
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    suffixes were lost in Vulgar Latin. An alternative formation with a feminine ablative form modifying mente (originally the ablative of mēns, and so meaning...
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  • are put in the ablative case to represent the circumstances of the main event. This absolute construction in Latin is called an "ablative absolute" and...
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