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Definition: Ablative Case |
Ablative CaseNoun1. The case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Ablative CaseSynonym: ablative (n). (additional references) |
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The ablative case is a case found in Latin and Sanskrit. The Latin ablative combines the Indo-European ablative (indicating "from"), instrumental (indicating "with" or "by") and locative (indicating "in") cases. From these original meanings several others developed, including the ablative of cause (indicating "caused by"), the ablative of time (indicating "at the time of", deriving from the locative), and the ablative absolute.
In the Finnish language (Suomi), it is the sixth of the locative cases with the basic meaning "from off of" - a poor English equivalent, but necessary to distinguish it from "from out of" which would be Elative case.
The other locative cases in Finnish are:
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Crosswords: Ablative Case |
| English words defined with "ablative case": ablative, ablative absolute. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "ablative case"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | ablatívusz eset (ablative). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ablativeay asecay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Ablative Case" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abblitive case. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-c-e-e-i-l-s-t-v" | |
-3 letters: ablatives, celibates. | |
-4 letters: ablative, aestival, basaltic, cabalist, castable, catalase, celibate, citeable, eatables, elatives, escalate, evitable, labiates, leaviest, salivate, satiable, saveable, vealiest, vesicate. | |
-5 letters: abelias, ablates, acetals, actable, actives, albatas, albites, astilbe, atabals, aviates, bailees, balatas, bastile, beastie, bestial, blastie, blivets, cabalas, cablets, caseate, caveats, celesta, citable, clavate, cleaves, eatable, elastic, elative, estival, evilest, labiate, laciest, lactase, latices, lievest, savable, sectile, stabile, vacates, vatical, velites, vesicae, vesical, vesicle. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 6C 61 74 69 76 65 43 61 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01000011 01100001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b l a t i v e   C a s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 006C 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 0043 0061 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3568786786758871237678571 |
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