Ablative

Definitions: Ablative

Ablative

Adjective

1. (linguistics) relating to the ablative case.

2. Tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature; "ablative material on a rocket cone".

Noun

1. The case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb.

Date "ablative" was first used: some time around 1434. (references)

Synonym: Ablative

Synonym: ablative case (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Ablative

English words defined with "ablative": ablative absolute, ablative case ♦ Genitive absolute. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ablative": ablative material ♦ Tissue Expansion. (references)

Etymologies containing "ablative": Facto. (references)

Domain	Title
Periodicals	Ca Selects: Heat Resistant & Ablative Polymers (reference) (more periodical examples)

High Tech	IBM 5.25 Opt. Disk Ablative Worm 1024 Bytes/Sector 1.3GB 2X 1-Pack (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Then he asked Jack Lawton to decline the noun mare and Jack Lawton stopped at the ablative singular and could not go on with the plural.
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Expressions using "ablative": ablative absolute ♦ ablative case. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "ablative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		ablatief. (various references)

Albanian		rasë rrjedhore. (various references)

Bulgarian		аблатив. (various references)

Chinese		可燃烧 (Combustible). (various references)

Czech		ablativ. (various references)

Dutch		ablatief. (various references)

Esperanto		ablativo. (various references)

Faeroese		<fall ið sigur frá ella við?víkjandi? hvørjum>. (various references)

Farsi		مفعول منه , مفعول عنه , مفعول به , مربوطبه مفعول به یامفعول عنه , کاهنده (Reducer), صیغه الت , ازی , رافع . (various references)

French		ablatif. (various references)

German		Ablativ. (various references)

Greek		αφαιρετική πτώση. (various references)

Hungarian		ablativus. (various references)

Icelandic		svitifall. (various references)

Indonesian		ablatif, kasus kelima. (various references)

Italian		ablativo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		奪� � . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		� っかく. (various references)

Korean		융� �. (various references)

Manx		gowaltagh (contagious, contractible, infectious; farm tenant, lessee, receiver). (various references)

Pig Latin		ablativeay.(various references)

Portuguese		ablativo. (various references)

Russian		аблятив. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ablativ. (various references)

Spanish		ablativo. (various references)

Swedish		ablativ. (various references)

Turkish		ablatif (ablatival), -den halindeki (ablatival), -den hali. (various references)

Ukranian		орудний відмінок, орудний. (various references)

Welsh		abladol. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ablativus, casus ablativus. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "ablative": ablatively, ablatives. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ablative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abblitive, abletive, ablitive, ablotive, ablutive, Altrieve, Balantyre, Balashov, saltative. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-i-l-t-v"
	-1 letter: labiate.
	-2 letters: abelia, ablate, albeit, albite, aviate, blivet, viable.
	-3 letters: abate, alate, alive, avail, blate, bleat, blite, labia, tabla, table, telia, valet, vitae, vital.
	-4 letters: abet, able, alae, alba, alit, baal, bail, bait, bale, bate, beat, belt, beta, bile, bite, blae, blat, blet, evil, ilea, late, lati, lava, lave, leva, lite, live, tael, tail, tala, tale, tali, teal, tela, tile, vail, vale, veal, veil, vela, vial, vibe, vile, vita.
	-5 letters: aal, aba, ail, ait, ala, alb, ale, alt, ate, ava, ave, baa, bal, bat, bel, bet, bit, eat, eta, lab, lat, lav, lea, lei, let, lev, lib, lie, lit, tab, tae, tav, tea, tel, tie, til, vat, vet, via, vie.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-i-l-t-v"
	+1 letter: ablatives.
	+2 letters: ablatively, ambivalent.
	+3 letters: elaborative.
	+4 letters: ambivalently, cultivatable, unambivalent.
	+5 letters: adumbratively, collaborative, multivariable, observational, rebarbatively, variabilities, verbalization, volatilizable.
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