ablative absolute

English

Etymology

Calque of Latin ablativus absolutus.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈæb.lə.tɪv æb.soʊˈlut/
(Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈæb.lə.tɪv æb.səˈlut/

Noun

ablative absolute (plural ablatives absolute or ablative absolutes)

(grammar) A construction in Latin and other sister languages in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, adjective, or noun, expressed or implied, which agrees with it in gender, number and case – both words forming a clause grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence.

Examples

Tarquiniō rēgnante, Pȳthagorās vēnit.

Tarquin reigning (or: In Tarquin’s reign), Pythagoras came.

cibō bonō, bene ēdērunt.

The food being good, they ate well.

Translations

linguistic construction in Latin

Dutch: losse ablatief
Esperanto: ablativo absoluta
Finnish: ablatiivinen absoluutti
French: ablatif absolu (fr) m
German: Ablativus absolutus (de)
Hungarian: ablativus absolutus
Italian: ablativo assoluto (it) m
Portuguese: ablativo absoluto m
Romanian: ablativ absolut (ro)
Sicilian: ablativu assulutu m
Spanish: ablativo absoluto
Telugu: సతిసప్తమి (te) (satisaptami)

See also

Further reading

Bauer, Brigitte (2000) Archaic Syntax in Indo-European, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 261–333

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