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	Ablative case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Latin ablative combines the functions of the Indo-European ablative (indicating "from"), instrumental (indicating "with" or "by"), and locative (indicating "in") cases, which merged together in the development of Latin.
		From these original meanings several others developed, including the ablative of cause (indicating "caused by"), the ablative of time and means (indicating "at the time of", deriving from the locative), and the ablative absolute.
		In Finnish, the ablative case is the sixth of the locative cases with the meaning "from off of", e.g.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ablative_case (256 words)

	Ablative absolute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Latin grammar, the ablative absolute (Ablativus absolutus) is a noun phrase cast in the ablative case.
		The ablative absolute is grammatically independent of the rest of the sentence.
		The ablative absolute construction is sometimes imitated in English in a construction called the nominative absolute: "The Americans, their independence secured, formed a government." But the construction is rarer and less natural in English than it is in Latin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ablative_absolute (376 words)

	ABSOLUTE - Definition of ABSOLUTE - ABSOLUTE in Encyclopedia - DictionaryWords.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Absolute equation (Astron.), the sum of the optic and eccentric equations.
		Absolute temperature (Physics), the temperature as measured on a scale determined by certain general thermo-dynamic principles, and reckoned from the absolute zero.
		Absolute zero (Physics), the be ginning, or zero point, in the scale of absolute temperature.
	www.dictionarywords.net /find/word/ABSOLUTE (617 words)

	ABLATIVE
		Caesare duce: Similarly, this kind of ablative absolute may be analyzed as a temporal ablative (that is, a metaphorical extension of the locative case) or as an associative-instrumental ablative (for instance, in the sense of "with Caesar being the leader").
		Degree of Difference: The Ablative of Degree of difference is a development of the ablative of means: the amount of the difference being considered the means by which something is different.
		The Ablative of Respect seems to have had a composite origin or was influenced at least by two different case-functions: the locative function and the instrumental function.
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /latin/grammar/ablative_case.htm (1040 words)

	KET DL \| Latin 2 \| Grammatica \| Participles
		An Ablative Absolute phrase is used when a thought, condition or action is grammatically separate but modifies the meaning of the rest of the sentence.
		The ablative absolute is sometimes called an adverbial phrase because it modifies the whole sentence as an adverb modifies the action of a verb.
		Nuntium, although not in the ablative case, is considered part of the AA phrase because it is direct object of the active participle.
	www.dl.ket.org /latin2/grammar/ablativeabsolute.htm (598 words)

	Chapter 24
		RULE 1: The noun/subject of an ablative absolute is "absolute" from (i.e.
		Note that the "absolute" part of the ablative absolute means that the construction is grammatically "removed" from the main sentence.
		In other words, the subject of the ablative absolute should not be a constituent of the main sentence, in theory—there are, however, many exceptions in Latin—and if the noun in the ablative absolute is used elsewhere in the sentence, the participle should be attached to the noun there, making an ablative absolute unnecessary.
	www.usu.edu /markdamen/Latin1000/Chapters/24ch.htm (732 words)

	ABLATIVE 2, ABLATIVE ABSOLUTE, ABLATIVE CASE. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
		Latin’s ablative absolute is a syntactically separate phrase, usually made up of a noun and a modifier, both in the ablative case; it works like a sentence modifier.
		English has no ablative case, but it has structures that grammarians have compared to ablative absolutes: The homework completed, we hurried to the stadium.
		The grammatical term ablative is stressed on the first syllable, AB-luh-tiv, as noun or adjective.
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	Learn more about Latin in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The six noun forms (or "cases") are nominative (used for subjects), genitive (show possession), dative (indirect objects), accusative (direct objects, some prepositions), ablative (used with some prepositions), and vocative (used to address someone).
		In addition, there exists in some nouns a locative case used to express place (normally expressed by the ablative with a preposition such as IN), but this hold-over from Indo-European is only found in the names of lakes, cities, towns, similar locales, and a few other words.
		Romanian is still equipped with five cases (though the ablative is no longer represented).
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/la/latin.html (560 words)

	Latin tutorial: Ablatives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The ablative case is the case of averbial relations showing where, whence, and wherewith.
		Derived from the ablative of personal agent, ablative of person through whom expresses the doer of an action as a means to accomplishing that action.
		The ablative absolute stands grammatically unconnected/loosely connected to the rest of the sentence (hence "absolute"), and modifies the context of the sentence.
	www.freewebs.com /gjcl/tutorial/ablatives.htm (753 words)

	Ablative Absolute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The ablative absolute is a construction usually consisting of a noun and a participle, both in the ablative case.
		The ablative absolute is connected to the rest of the sentence in meaning only, not grammatically.
		Recall that passive voice used ablative of agent to tell us who was doing the action: "haec femina magistro laudata est", "this woman was praised by her teacher." If we indicate agent in a passive periphrastic, we use the dative case.
	www.north.mccsc.edu /~blaw/chapter_44.htm (526 words)

	Verbs and syntax IX: ablative absolute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The ablative absolute is the Rolls-Royce of Latin constructions: it's elegant, it's powerful, it's classy, and it's not really English.
		In the last two cases, as the first alternative translation for each shows, what you've effectively got is an ablative absolute with omission of present participle of sum.
		Contrary to what the book says, the ablative absolute is consistently translatable, though it won't always sound very idiomatic in English: you can (nearly) always just translate it as an ordinary ablative with "with" (as opposed to "by", "from", and "in").
	www.rhul.ac.uk /Classics/NJL/Latin/verbs9.html (223 words)

	Latin Grammar Aid: Ablative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		ablative separation : that man is WITHOUT THE SENSE of a wart hog.
		ablative prepositions : ab, de, cum, ex, in.
		ablative absolute : THE KING HAVING DIED=When the king was dead.
	www.nd.edu /~archives/abl.htm (165 words)

	Dictionary Information: Definition Absolute - Description Meaning Thesaurus
		The Cessation of Discrimination of Knowledge of the Absolute
		(Absolute truth such as it pertains to man in a state of consciousness as contradistinguished from relative truth, such as perceived by him through comparison) (mz).
		-- Absolute temperature (Physics), the temperature as measured on a scale determined by certain general thermo-dynamic principles, and reckoned from the absolute zero.
	www.selfknowledge.com /400.htm (466 words)

	The Ablative Absolute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As the name implies, the words which comprise an Ablative Absolute are indeed in the ablative case.
		This is an Ablative Absolute and was one of the favorite quirky grammatical constructions of the Romans.
		It is this amazing versatility of meaning that makes the Ablative Absolute such a powerful thing; the Romans could express in two short words an idea that could take all afternoon to relate in English.
	homepages.moeller.org /latinclub/p_l_ablabs.htm (519 words)

	Lesson XVII
		There is a very useful construction called the ablative absolute that compensates for the usually subordinate role of the ablative.
		Use an ablative absolute to say "After the rabbits [cuniculus] were eaten [esus], we sang a song." "After the rabbits were eaten" is the condition we want in the ablative absolute, and "we sang a song" is the main sentence.
		The subject or object in the ablative absolute cannot be the same as the subject of the sentence, however.
	www.du.edu /~etuttle/classics/latin/latin17.htm (1179 words)

	Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar, section 419 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A noun or pronoun, with a participle in agreement, inay be put in the Ablative to define the time or circumstances of an action.
		NOTE: The ablative absolute is an adverbial modifier of the predicate.
		A substantive in the ablative absolute very seldom denotes a person or thing elsewhere mentioned in the same clause.
	www.hhhh.org /perseant/libellus/aides/allgre/allgre.419.html (459 words)

	ABSOLUTE
		The present participle, representing an action that takes place at the same time as the main verb, describes the general context within which something happens (it is very much like the ablative of time = time within which).
		It is often best translated by saying "While..." The past participle (or perfect passive participle), representing an action that has already taken place, describes events that precede the main event.
		These events are usually causal (rarely just an historical event that preceded) and so the most common translation for the past participle is "Since...." The future participle was rare in the Ablative Ablsolute until the period called Silver Latin.
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /latin/grammar/ablative_absolute.htm (173 words)

	A
		ablative, absolute, abstract, act, action, active, actor, ad hoc, addressee, adjective, adverb, aesthetic, affirmation, agency, agent, agreement, allegory, ambiguity, analysis, anaphora, animism, anthropology, antithesis, apothegm, archetype, argument, arrangement, asituational, aspect, association, assumption, audience, author, author-function
		However, to consider these possibilities further, we should move into the areas of Symbolic, involving modes of transubstantiation, rituals of rebirth, whereby the individual identifies himself in terms of the collective motive (an identification by which he both is and is not one with that with which and by which he is identified).
		At present it is enough to note in a general way how the paradox of the absolute figures grammatically in the dialectic, making for a transcending of none term by its other, and for the reversed ambiguous derivation of the term from its other as ancestral principle'.
	www.sil.org /~radneyr/humanities/A.htm (17081 words)

	Chapter Absent <i>to</i> Abstain of A by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		the temperature as measured on a scale determined by certain general thermo-dynamic principles, and reckoned from the absolute zero.
		the be ginning, or zero point, in the scale of absolute temperature.
		In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1192/21549/3.html (284 words)

	De "Ablative Absolute" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Si linguam Latinam unum duumve annos legebas, fortasse "Ablative Absolute" vidisti, quod est forma optima grammatica.
		Ut nomen dicit, verba in "Ablative Absolute" quidem sunt in casu ablativo.
		Ob hanc diversitatem "Ablative Absolute" constructio fortissima est; Romani dixerunt in verbis duobus sententiam pro qua in Anglicana necesse sunt dies totus.
	homepages.moeller.org /latinclub/lp_l_ablabs.htm (406 words)

	Drills
		Chapter 37, Drill b: Ablative absolute: drill use of ablative absolute.
		Each English phrase can be expressed as an ablative absolute with the Latin noun and verb provided, but you need to check carefully on active and passive and tense, so that the resulting ablative absolute still gives the same information.
		Caesare interfecto: a perfect participle is needed to express time before the action of the main verb, but interficio does not have a perfect active participle.
	www.southwestern.edu /academic/classical.languages/latin/ch37b.html (192 words)

	Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar, section 398 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Under the name Ablative are included the meanings and, In part, the forms of three cases, - the Ablative proper, expressing the relation FROM; the Locative, IN; and the Instrumental, WITH or BY.
		These three cases were originally not wholly distinct in meaning, and their confusion was rendered more certain (1) by the development of meanings that approached each other and (2) by phonetic decay, by means of which these cases have become largely identical in form.
		This classification according to the original cases (to which, however, too great a degree of certainty should not be attached)[1][Thus the Ablative of Cause may be, at least in part, of Instrumental origin, and the Ablative Absolute appears to combine the Instrumental and the Locative.] is set forth in the following table: -
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	Ablativeabsolute
		Abbild abbilden Abbildung abhalten Ablativ ableiten Appellation applaudieren aufhalten aufladen
		Abbild abbilden abhalten Ablativ ableiten Appellation applaudieren aufhalten aufladen
		ability "a blade of grass" ablation "ablative case" ablative ablution abolition "abolition of serfdom" "a bolt of cloth" "affiliated firm" affiliation "affiliation order" afield "a flat" afloat "afloat on the billows" aflutter "a plot of land" "appeal to arms" appellate appellation "applied art" "applied arts" applied "applied mathematics" "applied music" "applied ornament" "applied sciences"
	dictionary-x.com /Ablativeabsolute.html (252 words)

	ipedia.com: Latin Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		After the collapse of the Roman Empire, Latin evolved into the various Romance languages.
		Another major distinction between Romance and Latin is that Romance languages, excluding Romanian, have lost their case endings in most words except for some pronouns.
		Romanian still has five cases (though the ablative is no longer represented).
	www.ipedia.com /latin.html (662 words)

	Citation Record
		The Rise and Fall of Absolute Constructions: A Latin Case History.
		case [absolutive] [role assumed by accusative] [Old French]
		case [genitive] [Greek] [syncretism of PIE genitive and ablative]
	www.utexas.edu /cola/depts/lrc/ietype/citation/C0009.html (38 words)

	The Cyclops via the Ablative Absolute
		Look how useful the ablative absolute is. We can use it to retell the entire story of the Ulysses and the Cyclops, reminding us that anything a verb or an adjective can do, a participle can do, too.
		For each item there are only two choices, so focus carefully on the grammar.
		Among the items are rare future ablatives absolute.
	abney.homestead.com /files/ourlatinheritage2/ablabscyclops.htm (383 words)

	RH - Handout C
		An ablative absolute is a participial phrase (i.e.
		a participle and noun) in the ablative case which is independent of the rest of the sentence.
		Underline the ablative absolutes in the sentences below and translate the absolute only in the space provided.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~glawall/Caesar/rh/rh_c.html (318 words)

	Merriam-Webster Online
		Etymology: Middle English absolut, from Latin absolutus, from past participle of absolvere to set free, absolve
		6 a : independent of arbitrary standards of measurement b : relating to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of length, mass, and time electric units> c : relating to, measured on, or being a temperature scale based on absolute zero temperature>; specifically :
		10 : being the true distance from an aircraft to the earth's surface altitude>
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