ablative

Speech parts

1. ablative - Noun

2. ablative - Adjective

4. ablative - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Taking away or removing.

Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.

The ablative case.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ablative case cutting instrumental nominative possessive disruptive deductive corrosive abrasive ablation dilapidated subtractive disjunctive reductive decomposable
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Antonyms

new fresh sweet additive pleasing working in

Hypernyms

oblique oblique case

Examples

The coffee having arrived (how hard it is to write without the ablative absolute!) we guzzled genteelly for a while... Kyril Bonfiglioli

ablative material on a rocket cone Source: Internet

Ablative Ablative heat shield (after use) on Apollo 12 capsule The ablative heat shield functions by lifting the hot shock layer gas away from the heat shield's outer wall (creating a cooler boundary layer ). Source: Internet

Basque In Basque there are two classes, animate and inanimate; however, the only difference is in the declension of locative cases (inessive, locative genitive, allative, terminal allative, ablative and directional ablative). Source: Internet

Czech has both instrumental and vocative cases, but lacks an ablative, which was largely replaced by either the genitive or instrumental case. Source: Internet

E.g. (ablative) in casā, "in the cottage"; (accusative) in casam, "into the cottage". Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ablationally ablatitious ablatival ablative absolute ablative case ablatively