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  • noun Plural form of ablative.

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Examples

  • Actually, they were the grammatical objects, maybe even indirect ones, and possibly even datives, but definitely not ablatives.

    Shang A Lang. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • While Miguel Valério interprets such endings as ablatives meaning 'from', I recognize the Etruscan inessive postclitic -θi 'in'.

    Minoan inscription HT 104 2009

  • While Miguel Valério interprets such endings as ablatives meaning 'from', I recognize the Etruscan inessive postclitic -θi 'in'.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • I like nonnies and ablatives ablates, but Twats? no....

    Go Name Yourself Editorial Anonymous 2009

  • This is one of the ablatives of manner that do not take _cum_.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • _ Especially common in this construction are the neuter ablatives

    Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

  • Select the accusatives of time and space and the ablatives of time in the following:

    Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

  • From the analogy of _in_ it was very easy to pass to other prepositions like _per_, which in literary Latin took the accusative only, and to use these prepositions also with cases which, historically speaking, were ablatives.

    The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Frank Frost Abbott 1892

  • We notice that there are in this decree no doubled consonants, no ablatives without the final _d_ (except the two last words, which are probably by a later hand), and few instances of _ae_ or _i_ for the older

    The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

  • Then he began to construe; -- a frightful confusion of nominatives without verbs, accusatives translated as ablatives, and adverbs turned into prepositions, ensued, and after a hopeless flounder, during which Mr Gordon left him entirely to himself,

    Eric, or Little by Little 1867

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