ablative

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The closest parallel I have found for this compressed use of the ablative is the idiom at v 7 'luce minus decima', 'before the tenth day Of the other readings, F1_'s tuum ... datum cannot itself be correct, although it may offer a clue to the truth.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or being a grammatical case indicating separation, direction away from, sometimes manner or agency, and the object of certain verbs. It is found in Latin and other Indo-European languages.
  2. noun The ablative case.
  3. noun A word in this case.

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  • The Itinerarium Antoninianum (226 2) offers Aegiso (ablative); Ehwald (_KB 41), citing Mommsen, took this as sufficient justification for retaining the single s of the Ex Ponto manuscripts, although the now lost Strasbourg manuscript had egissus at I viii 13 (and an indication of an alternative ending in -os_). —  The Last Poems of Ovid
  • The closest parallel I have found for this compressed use of the ablative is the idiom at v 7 'luce minus decima', 'before the tenth day Of the other readings, F1_'s tuum ... datum cannot itself be correct, although it may offer a clue to the truth. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
  • This construction is called the «ablative of manner Virī (cum) cōnstantiā magnā pugnant 101.» You are now able to form four important rules for the ablative denoting with 102.» RULE. —  Latin for Beginners
  • «Ablative of the Measure of Difference.» With comparatives and words implying comparison the ablative is used to denote the measure of difference. —  Latin for Beginners
  • So in the positive or superlative some adjectives, instead of following the usual formation, use the accusative or the ablative singular neuter adverbially; as Adj. facilis, easy prīmus, first Adv. —  Latin for Beginners
 

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  1. Middle English, from Latin ablātīvus, from ablātus, carried away; see ablation.
  2. From ablation.

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  1. from Latin ablativus, the name of a case, orig. denoting that from which something is taken away, from ablatus, past participle associated with auferre, take away, from ab, = English off, + ferre = English bear, with which are associated the past participle latus and supine latum, Old Latin tlatus, tlatum, √ *tla = Greek τλῆναι, bear, akin to Old Latin tulere, Latin tollere, lift, and English thole, q. v.
 

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