In Latin the ablative is the case that is used absolutely.
With the pronouns and adjectives there was a true accusative form; and with a few especial words an ablative or instrumental one.
Fine is the instrumental ablativeconstructed with destinata, which is itself an ablative agreeing with aula understood.
The student should ascertain by analysis of the thought what the Ablative Absolute is intended to represent, and should translate it accordingly.
Quoque must not be confounded with quōque, the Ablative of the pronoun quisque.
Eutropius and some other post-classical writers use the Ablative of Time within which for the Accusative of Duration of Time.
The Ablative makes prominent the limits that mark the time.
Ablative makes the limits of the time more prominent than the duration.
Eutropius occasionally substitutes per with the Accusative for the Ablative or Dative of agent; cf.
The locative ablative is used to denote the point of time at which action occurs.
The substantive of the ablative absolute usually denotes a different person or thing from any in the main sentence.
The ablative of price or value is thus used chiefly with verbs or verbal expressions of bargaining, buying or selling, hiring or letting, costing, being cheap or dear.
In the plural, however, there was less variety, the forms for dative and ablative being from the earliest times identical.
The ablative case in the Latin language, as Domino, suggests a secondary idea of something being deducted from or by the primary one.
In Naevius we find archaisms proportionally much more numerous than in Plautus, especially in the retention of the original length of vowels, and early forms of inflexion, such as the genitive in -as and the ablative in -d.
The ablative is always conditioned by some verb, see Madv.
Consumere followed by an ablative without in is excessively rare in Cic.
The ablative is always used to express point of time, and indeed it may be doubted whether the best writers ever use any accusative in that sense, though they do occasionally use the ablative to express duration (cf.
The locative primarily denotes rest in a place, the ablative motion from a place, and the instrumental the means or concomitance of an action.
He then proceeds to prove his point, by alleging that the preposition governs the objective case in English, and the ablative in Latin, and that what is so governed, cannot be the nominative, or any part of it.
This ablative seems to be governed of a preposition understood.
This ablative seems to be governed by a preposition understood.
If the dative case has the meaning of to, and the ablative has the meaning of from, how can they be expounded, in English, but by suggesting the particle, where it is omitted?
The Latin word for participle is participium, which makes participio in the dative or the ablative case; but the Latin word for partake is participo, and not "participio.
And he hurt me with a stone; it is the ablative case.
He's got a theory of the ablative absolute," said Warren with a scowl, "fit to fetch Tacitus howling from the shades.
We meet twice a week, usually at his house, to squabble over his method of Latin pronunciation and his construction of the ablative case.
As for the ablative absolute, its reconstruction and regeneration have been the inspiring principle of my studious manhood.
The genitive, in the popular language, was little by little replaced by other constructions--commonly by the ablative with de or by the dative; the beginnings of this substitution may be observed as early as Plautus.
The gerund retained only the ablative case, the use of which was considerably extended: see above.
The passive is formed by conjugating the verb yi, come, with the ablative of the infinitive.
Other cases are formed (as in true Indo-Aryan languages) by the addition of postpositions, some of which are added to the accusative, while others are added to the ablative case.
Besides tebhyah tyagat for tesham tyagat is no violence to grammar, the use of the ablative in this sense not being infrequent in these writings.
In Sanskrit the ablative has sometimes the sense of 'through'.
The dative, not ablative as the vernacular translators take it, is not bad grammar, although the genitive is more agreeable with usage.
This is an instance of the ablative with 'lyap' understood).
The Ablative Absolute is grammatically independent of the rest of the sentence.
Grūs is declined like sūs, except that the Dative and Ablative Plural are always gruibus.
A noun or pronoun stands in the Ablative Absolute construction only when it denotes a different person or thing from any in the clause in which it stands.
So when I say, "this man is clothed with a garment," the ablative is to be construed as having relation to the formal cause, although the garment is not the form.
Others, again, say that this ablative must be construed as importing the relation of formal cause, because the Holy Ghost is the love whereby the Father and the Son formally love each other.
I should agree to it, but that the Ablative Case ends in is, and is long by Nature.
Do you take Notice, that in all these, wheresoever there is a Substantive of the Price, that is put in the Ablative Case; but that the rest are either put in the Genitive Case, or are changed into Adverbs.
Qui is the old ablative of the relative, interrogative, and indefinite pronouns.
Perhaps the author intends with a bold personification to speak of the almost dried-up rivers as dry-throated, siccis faucibus would then be well taken as ablative of description.
The old termination -hu has also survived in sporadic instances, under the form o, with an ablative sense.
Latin scholars would have felt far more hesitation in introducing the old d of the ablative in Plautus, if the analogy of Sanskrit had not so clearly proved its legitimacy.
It is so in Latin, it may be so in Zend, where, as Justi points out, the d of the ablative is probably a media.
The old Latin ablative in d is not a case in point, as we shall see afterwards.
The name of the tribe was always added in the ablative case, as Oppius Veientinâ, Anxius Tomentinâ.
Milli is apparently an old ablative of the singular form.
The ablative of the old protelum, which is interpreted as "the continuous, unintermitting pull of oxen applied to a dead weight.
