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Grammatical case
In grammar, the ablative case (pronounced /ˈæblətɪv/ AB-lə-tiv; abbreviated abl) is a grammatical case for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in the grammars
Ablative_case
One of the six grammatical cases of nouns in Latin
In Latin grammar, the ablative case (cāsus ablātīvus) is one of the six noun cases. Traditionally, it is the sixth case (cāsus sextus, cāsus latīnus)
Ablative_(Latin)
Grammatical case indicating a location
and "by". The locative case belongs to the general local cases, together with the lative and ablative case. The locative case exists in many language
Locative_case
Categorization of nouns and modifiers by function
case, but many of these languages still retain vocative, locative, and ablative cases. Old English had an instrumental case, but not a locative case.
Grammatical_case
Grammar of the Turkish language
the preceding suffix: for example, the ablative case of evler is evlerden "from the houses" but, the ablative case of başlar "heads" is başlardan "from
Turkish_grammar
Grammar of the Latin language
case) rēgem videt "(he) sees the king" (accusative case) Further cases mean "of" (genitive case), "to/for" (dative case), and "with" (ablative case)
Latin_grammar
Grammatical case
which is a Latin ablative (viā) of the nominative via, meaning road, route, or way. In the ablative it means by way of. The instrumental case appears in Old
Instrumental_case
Grammatical case
the free dictionary. Elative case ("out of") Illative case ("into") Allative case ("onto") Adessive case ("on") Ablative case ("from") The Finnish language
Inessive_case
Grammar of the Tamil language
grammatical case, of which there are 9: nominative case, accusative case, dative case, instrumental case, sociative case, locative case, ablative case, genitive
Tamil_grammar
Grammatical case
locative cases in Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian are: Inessive case ("in") Elative case ("out of") Illative case ("into") Allative case ("onto") Ablative case
Adessive_case
Latin expression meaning "at first sight"
feminine forms of primus ("first") and facies ("face"), both in the ablative case. In modern, colloquial, and conversational English, a common translation
Prima_facie
Grammatical case
verdächtigt euch des Betrugs (Someone suspects you of (committing) fraud) The ablative case of Indo-European was absorbed into the genitive in Classical Greek.
Genitive_case
Language of India
instrumental-ablative causes singular oblique stems ending in -i to lose this before the vowel-marker for the instrumental-ablative case. The instrumental-ablative
Konda_language_(Dravidian)
Grammatical case
Illative case ("into") Adessive case ("at", "in the vicinity of" or "on") Ablative case ("away from" or "off of") For the Lithuanian and Latvian languages,
Allative_case
Grammatical case
The term is sometimes used to refer to the ablative case of other languages. In Georgian, the adverbial case has several functions. Its most common usage
Adverbial_case
Grammar of standard Tibetian
sensation. The ablative case is always suffixed with ནས་ nas. It marks direction away from the noun. Like the agentive case, the ablative can also take
Modern_Lhasa_Tibetan_grammar
Part of Latin grammar
are put in the ablative case to represent the circumstances of the main event. This absolute construction in Latin is called an "ablative absolute" and
Latin_syntax
Afro-Asiatic of Ethiopia
There are eight cases in Malo[clarification needed]. Nominative Accusative Dative Genitive Instrumental Commutative Ablative Nominative case has <i> and <a>
Melo_language
Hindu mantra introduced in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad
tamasaḥ – "from darkness"; ablative case of tamas "darkness"; becomes tamaso due to sandhi jyotiḥ – "to light"; accusative case of jyotis "light"; becomes
Pavamana_Mantra
Linguistic phenomenon whereby a language allows multiple cases suffixed on the same head
adnominal cases (ablative and genitive) in possessor-like functions, and various relational and adverbial (e.g., spatial) cases is common. Case functions
Suffixaufnahme
Inflection of words according to number, gender, and/or case
Accusative case marks the direct object. Ablative case is used to modify verbs and can be translated as 'by', 'with', 'from', etc. Vocative case is used
Declension
Grammar of the Pashto language
inflected for gender (masc./fem.), number (sing./plur.), and case (direct, oblique, ablative and vocative). The verb system is very intricate with the following
Pashto_grammar
Form of Latin used in the Middle Ages
of the present participle in an ablative absolute phrase, but the participle did not need to be in the ablative case. Habeo (I have [to]) and Debeo (I
Medieval_Latin
Latin phrase acknowledging wrongdoing
receiving the sacrament of Penance. Grammatically, meā culpā is in the ablative case, with an instrumental meaning. At the sight of the crucifixion of Jesus
Mea_culpa
list of grammatical cases as they are used by various inflectional languages that have declension. This list will mark the case, when it is used, an
List_of_grammatical_cases
Turkic language of the Oghuz sub-branch
preceding suffix: For example, the ablative case of obalar is obalardan "from the villages" but, the ablative case of itler "dogs" is itlerden "from the
Turkmen_language
Character(s) following an ordinal number
died on the tenth of June"), the ablative case is generally used: Xo (decimo) with the month stated in the genitive case. Examples: Io (primo) die Julii
Ordinal_indicator
Grammatical case denoting "partialness", "without result" or "without specific identity"
which means "do you have (those) books?" The partitive case comes from the older ablative case. This meaning is preserved e.g. in kotoa (from home), takaa
Partitive_case
Endangered Yupik language spoken by the Siberian Yupik people near the Bering Strait
-neng at the end of the ablative case endings. In grammar, the prolative case, also called the vialis case, is a grammatical case of a noun or pronoun that
Central Siberian Yupik language
Central_Siberian_Yupik_language
Grammar of the Turkmen language
preceding suffix. For example, the ablative case of obalar is obalardan "from the villages" but the ablative case of itler "dogs" is itlerden "from the
Turkmen_grammar
Grammatical case used in languages such as Finnish, Lithuanian, and Hungarian
Adessive case ("(to be) on") Allative case ("onto") Ablative case ("from, off") The illative case, denoting direction of movement, is now less common
Illative_case
Omotic language spoken in Ethiopia
1-Nominative case 2-Absolutive case 3-Genitive Case 4-Dative case 5-Allative case 6-Ablative case 7-Locative case 8-Comitative case 9-Instrumental
Koore_language
Principles of Protestant Christianity
adjective (sola) and the noun (scriptura) are in the ablative case rather than in the nominative case to indicate that the Bible does not stand alone apart
Five_solae
1865 children's novel by Lewis Carroll
mus (vocative). The sixth case, mure (ablative) is absent from Alice's recitation. Nilson suggests that Alice's missing ablative is a pun on her father Henry
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland
Kipchak Turkic language
with cardinal numbers, with the denominator first in ablative case and numerator second in the case required by the sentence, e.g. 2⁄3 ‘üçten eki’. Crimean
Crimean_Tatar_language
Official language of Mongolia
sometimes has to take accusative or genitive case. There is marginal occurrence of subjects taking ablative case as well. Subjects of attributive clauses
Mongolian_language
Kannada dialect of India
considered: the ablative case (ಅಪಾದಾನವಿಭಕ್ತಿ). This case is formed periphrastically by combining the genitive case of the noun supposedly in the ablative with the
Arebhashe_dialect
Grammatical case
Sublative case ("onto") Allative case ("towards") Ablative case ("away from") Delative case ("off") uusikielemme (2022-02-14). "The Elative Case (Mistä)
Elative_case
Subdivision of the Uralic languages
common retention from Proto-Uralic. An original ablative case marked by -l A series of original locative cases, formed from postpositions derived from a pronoun
Ugric_languages
Title of nobility used by a man because his wife holds it in her own right
Infanta Cristina. Jure matris List of Latin phrases In Latin, jure is the ablative case of jus, meaning a legal right. Black, H. C. (1968), Law Dictionary (4th ed
Jure_uxoris
Medieval Latin phrase
changed; things needing to be changed'). The phrase is an ablative absolute, using the ablative case to show that the clause is grammatically independent ('absolute'
Mutatis_mutandis
Reused manuscript with visible prior text
constructed in "gathers" which are folded (compare folio, 'leaf, page' ablative case of Latin folium), then stacked together like a newspaper and sewn together
Palimpsest
Prepositions in the English language
With an an ablatif ablative case case of of eyþer either nownbre number with oute without a a preposicion. preposition. With what case xal þe comparatif
English_prepositions
Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Bhutan
emphasis. Dzongkha nouns are marked for 5 cases: genitive, locative, ablative, dative and ergative. genitive case: marks possession and is often translated
Dzongkha
Declination patterns for nouns in the Finnish language
Finnish partitive case ending -ta. This may be traced into a Proto-Uralic ablative ending, which is preserved in what is now the partitive case. Also, the Finnish
Finnish_noun_cases
Nonfinite verb form
certain prepositions, and in certain uses of the genitive, dative, and ablative cases. It is very rarely combined with a dependent sentence element such as
Gerund
Extinct Italic language of central Italy
singular marked by -u, may be interpreted as an ablative singular form. The dative and ablative cases shared the same plural endings, which were orthographically
Umbrian_language
Latin term meaning "from the beginning"
initio, ablative singular of initium ("beginning"). Ab initio was first used in c. 1600, from Latin, literally "from the beginning", from ablative case of
Ab_initio
Name list
the feminine given name Agnes. It was derived from Latin and is the ablative case attached form of Agnes. Phenomenologically and linguistically, the name
Agneta
Motto of the United States Army Special Forces
("to oppress") in the ablative case as governed by de, meaning "an oppressed person". The adjective Liber is in the nominative case, "a free person". The
De_oppresso_liber
Reconstructed ancestor of the Afroasiatic language family
case. Diakonoff also believed he could reconstruct a comitative-dative case in *-dV or *-Vd, an ablative-comparative case in *-kV, a "directive" case
Proto-Afroasiatic_language
Declensions in the Latvian language
dative in the plural. Also, the Latvian ablative case is not an archaism but rather an innovation. The ablative case emerged in Latvian under the circumstances
Latvian_declension
Indo-European language of the Italic branch
Most prepositions are followed by a noun in either the accusative or ablative case: apud puerum 'with the boy', with puerum being the accusative form of
Latin
Grammar of the Telugu language
-tōn/-tōḍan for sociative); the colloquial suffixes for ablative case are -nuṇḍi/-nuñci. Ablative case is also used for comparative statements in colloquial
Telugu_grammar
Aspect of the language
(indefinite/definite), and case. The cases are nominative, accusative, dative, ablative and vocative. Many texts include a genitive case, but this is produced
Albanian_morphology
Medieval non-church sanctioned spousal practice "in the Danish manner"
Jumièges, who was Norman, but also wrote in Latin. Mōre "by custom" is the ablative case of the Latin word for "manner", the subject form being mōs (cf. More
More_danico
Ugric language spoken in Siberia
direction. Ablative case, external case used to mean moving away from something. Approximative case, used to indicate a path towards. Translative case, used
Khanty_languages
nominative case and denoting "of Arc", Roman Catholic saints denominated toponymically in Latin generally are denominated "de" (which takes the ablative case) followed
Name_of_Joan_of_Arc
Latin-based international auxiliary language
novum > novo (new). In all other cases, adjectives are formed with the ablative case from the genitive, as is the case with nouns. Adjectives can be used
Latino_sine_flexione
Topics referred to by the same term
"I learn in/from hell" depending of the interpretation of the dative/ablative case of "infernum" which can be freely translated as "I learn through suffering"
Disco Inferno (disambiguation)
Disco_Inferno_(disambiguation)
Finnic language south of Lake Onega, Russia
adessive and ablative case forms (talʹvel > talʹvoo, kezal > kezaa). l and n are palatalized before e in non-initial syllables when followed by a case ending
Veps_language
Part of speech that defines a noun or pronoun
form of the adjective. In such cases, as in some Australian Aboriginal languages, case-marking, such as the ablative case, may be used to indicate one entity
Adjective
Grammatical case
corresponds to the terminative. These same postpositions with the elative (or ablative) case also express the opposite of a terminative: a limit in time or space
Terminative_case
Intention to be fair, open, and honest
(pretense). Bona fides is a Latin phrase meaning "good faith". Its ablative case is bona fide, meaning "in good faith", which is often used in English
Good_faith
Latin word meaning "in the sense of"
usage. Sensu is the ablative case of the noun sensus, here meaning "sense". It is often accompanied by an adjective (in the same case). Three such phrases
Sensu
Eastern Iranian language of Ossetia, in the Caucasus
adverbial, i.e. gerundial interpretation, it needs to be declined in the ablative case, as does an adjective: бадгӕйӕ badgӕjӕ '(while) sitting'. There are
Ossetian_language
Grammatical tense
this case dedisset and data esset respectively). In many cases an ablative absolute phrase, consisting of a noun and perfect participle in the ablative case
Pluperfect
Grammatical case
grammar, the nominative case (abbreviated nom), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part
Nominative_case
Word or phrase separable from adjacent syntax
present or past participle in the ablative case; for this reason they are referred to as ablative absolutes. An ablative absolute describes some general
Absolute_construction
Language of ancient Sumer and Babylon
of the house"), although this is more common in Old Sumerian. In the ablative case (with added 𒋫 -ta), it means "after" or "since": e2 in-řu2-a-ta "after
Sumerian_language
Latin language in the period before 70 BC
regular sound change. In the plural, the locative was captured by the ablative case in all Italic languages before Old Latin. The stems of nouns of this
Old_Latin
Fictional language in the fantasy works of J. R. R. Tolkien
cases: allative (of which the dative is a shortened form), locative (also with a shortened form), and ablative; and a possessive or adjectival case.
Quenya
Tibetic language spoken in Ladakh, India
context. There are 7 cases: direct case ergative case dative case instrumental case associative case ablative case genitive case "ABSTRACT OF SPEAKERS'
Ladakhi_language
Roman god
beseech the god of the gods./ Gatekeeper. Ad Nationes II 11, 3. Cozeuiod, ablative case of Cozeuios, would be an archaic spelling of Consēuius: -ns> -nts> -ts>
Janus
County town of the Isle of Wight, England
1227: Neuport 1279: Niweport 1307: Newporte The earliest spelling (ablative case of Latin novus burgus) is common in medieval sources. Mousterian remains
Newport,_Isle_of_Wight
Order of syntactic constituents
Due to the presence of grammatical cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, and in some cases or dialects vocative and locative) applied
Word_order
Romance language of Western Europe
strangers, whether they are from abroad or from outside Occitania (in this case, often merely and abusively referred to as Parisiens or Nordistes, which
Occitan_language
Theory in linguistic typology
the language still retains vocative, locative, and ablative cases. Old English had an instrumental case, but not a locative or prepositional. Blake argues
Case_hierarchy
Grammatical case
is a grammatical case which indicates motion to a location. It corresponds to the English prepositions "to" and "into". The lative case belongs to the group
Lative_case
Part of Latin grammar
declension includes up to seven grammatical cases: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative and locative. The locative is limited to
Latin_declension
Turkic language
is achieved through putting the noun being compared against in the ablative case: ağır ("heavy"), kurşundan ağır ("heavier than lead"). Less … than is
Turkish_language
Indo-Aryan language native to Sindh
"the boy's mother". There are several ablative case markers formed from the spatial postpositions and the ablative ending -ā̃. These indicate complex motion
Sindhi_language
Sociological constructs related to sex
of 1882 defined gender as kind, breed, sex, derived from the Latin ablative case of genus, like genere natus, which refers to birth. The first edition
Gender
Latin legal term
order to explore their implications. The Latin word arguendō is the ablative case of the gerund of the verb arguere, which means 'assert' or 'clarify'
Arguendo
Inuit language spoken in Greenland
per kilo" The locative case describes spatial location: ex: illu-mi house-LOC illu-mi house-LOC "in the house" The ablative case describes movement away
Greenlandic_language
Treatise by Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
all the names are the two cases of res militaris (nominative case): rei militaris (genitive case) and re militari (ablative case). The classical form would
De_re_militari
Removal of material from an object's surface
fire test. Ablative materials usually have a large concentration of organic matter[citation needed] that is reduced by fire to ashes. In the case of silicone
Ablation
referent words and phrases are perceived as foreign to English. In a few cases, English referents have replaced the original Latin ones (e.g., "rest in
List_of_Latin_abbreviations
Grammatical case
In grammar, the ergative case (abbreviated erg) is the grammatical case that identifies a nominal phrase as the agent of a transitive verb in ergative–absolutive
Ergative_case
Critically endangered Tungusic language
In Classical Manchu, there was also a case marker deri, which has been said to have more or less the same ablative uses as ci; in Xibe, however, it differs
Manchu_language
Grammatical case used to receive the direct object of a transitive verb
In grammar, the accusative case (abbreviated acc) of a noun is the grammatical case used to receive the direct object of a transitive verb. In the English
Accusative_case
Case specifying the use of the object form of pronouns
objective case (abbr. obj) is a nominal case other than the nominative case and, sometimes, the vocative. A noun or pronoun in the oblique case can generally
Oblique_case
Overview of noun phrases in Hungarian
plural cases. However, in Hungarian there are possessed and not possessed plural cases. Since the possessor may also be plural, the plural case is marked
Hungarian_noun_phrase
Fictional character from the British sitcom Yes Minister
Woolley is quick to remind Sir Humphrey that Greek, unlike Latin, has no ablative case. (Bernard may, like Sir Humphrey, have read Literae Humaniores, but
Bernard_Woolley
Topics referred to by the same term
some hands-on experiment and activities ABL, glossing abbreviation for ablative case Asset-based lending Atmospheric boundary layer, the region where the
ABL
Reconstructed ancestor of the Sámi languages
locative *-na was repurposed as an essive, the ablative case *-ta became the partitive, and new locative cases were formed from these by infixing *-s-. Sámi
Proto-Sámi_language
Grammatical construction
sentence (if indicated) is expressed using a noun in the ablative case, in this case servō (the ablative of servus). Different languages use different methods
Passive_voice
Ancient Indo-European language
"endingless" variant of the possessive, was indeed a genitive singular. Of an ablative case there are only a few uncertain examples. Nouns, adjectives, and pronomina
Lydian_language
List of interlinear glossing abbreviations
abbreviated to pst) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning. Similarly
List of glossing abbreviations
List_of_glossing_abbreviations
Typographic abbreviation of the word "number(s)"
derives the numero sign from Latin numero, the ablative form of numerus ("number", with the ablative denotations of "by the number, with the number")
Numero_sign
ABLATIVE CASE
ABLATIVE CASE
Surname or Lastname
English
English : evidently a metonymic occupational name for a woodman. A further possible origin is from the French place name element Ax (etymologically identical to Aix), from Latin aquis (dative or ablative plural) ‘near the waters’, denoting a spa.In some cases perhaps an altered form of German Axt.A George Axe is recorded in VA in 1679.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a pair of villages in Cheshire, on either side of the Weaver river, recorded in Domesday Book as Maneshale, from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Mann + Old English scylf ‘shelf’, ‘ledge’.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Fait, Noble, Relative
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a companionable person, from Middle English frend ‘friend’ (Old English frēond). In the Middle Ages the term was also used to denote a relative or kinsman, and the surname may also have been acquired by someone who belonged to the family of someone who was a more important figure in the community.American translation of Jewish and German Freund.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Anglo-Norman French cas(s)e ‘case’, ‘container’ (from Latin capsa), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of boxes or chests.Americanized spelling of French Caisse.Americanized spelling of Kaas.Americanized spelling of German Käse, a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of cheese. Compare Kaeser.
Male
English
(Hebrew ×Ö²×œÖ¶×›Ö°Ö¼×¡Ö·× Ö°×“Ö¶×¨): Anglicized form of Latin Alexandrus (Greek Alexandros), ALEXANDER means "defender of mankind." In the New Testament bible, this is the name of a son of Simon, a relative of the high priest, a Jew in Acts 19:33, and a coppersmith who opposed Paul.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Middle English personal name Hick + Middle English maugh, mough ‘relative’ (from Old Norse mágr or Old English magu). The exact nature of the relationship is not clear; the Middle English word meant ‘relative by marriage’, but was also used occasionally of a female blood relation.
Boy/Male
Native American
Rough; abrasive; witty.
Boy/Male
Indian
Fait, Noble, Relative
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name from Middle English hal(l)owes ‘nooks’, ‘hollows’, from Old English halh (see Hale 1). In some cases the name may be genitive, rather than plural, in form, with the sense ‘relative or servant of the dweller in the nook’.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Family; Pedigree; Relative
Girl/Female
Hindu
Fait, Noble, Relative
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Prophet Muhammad's Relative
Girl/Female
Muslim
Fait, Noble, Relative
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : via Old French from the Germanic personal name Milo, of unknown etymology. The name was introduced to England by the Normans in the form Miles (oblique case Milon). In English documents of the Middle Ages the name sometimes appears in the Latinized form Milo (genitive Milonis), although the normal Middle English form was Mile, so the final -s must usually represent the possessive ending, i.e. ‘son or servant of Mile’.English : patronymic from the medieval personal name Mihel, an Old French contracted form of Michael.English : occupational name for a servant or retainer, from Latin miles ‘soldier’, sometimes used as a technical term in this sense in medieval documents.Irish (County Mayo) : when not the same as 1 or 3, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolmhuire, Myles being used as the English equivalent of the Gaelic personal name Maol Muire (see Mullery).Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : unexplained.Dutch : variant of Miels, a variant of Miele 3.John Miles or Myles (c.1621–83), born probably in Herefordshire, England, was a pioneer American Baptist minister who emigrated to New England in 1662 and had a pastorate in Swansea, MA. Many of his descendants spell their name Myles.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Jeffrey.The third U.S. president, author of the Declaration of Independence, and VA statesman Thomas Jefferson relates in his memoirs a family tradition that he was descended from Welsh stock on his father’s side, while noting the relative infrequency of the name Jefferson in Wales. It is a characteristically northern English name. A Jefferson was among the burgesses who attended the first representative assembly at Jamestown, VA, in 1619.
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Cassie, CASEY means "she who entangles men." Compare with masculine Casey.Â
Boy/Male
Muslim
Fait, Noble, Relative
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained. In PA in the 18th century this surname alternated with Diddle, likewise unexplained. The Shropshire connection suggests a possible Welsh origin, but no relevant Welsh name has been identified.William Aduddel (also known as William Adiddle or Diddle) born in 1702/03 in Astly Abbott, Shropshire, England, migrated in the 1740s to PA from England. He and a relative, Thomas Aduddell, both bought land from descendants of William Penn.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Good Relative
ABLATIVE CASE
ABLATIVE CASE
Female
Russian
Diminutive form of Russian Ekaterina and Yekaterina, KATERINKA means "little pure one."
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, English
Nobility and Strength; Nobility
Boy/Male
Hindu
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu
Host; War
Boy/Male
Tamil
One of the kauravas
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Ford Near the Cliff; Cliff-side Ford
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Exceptional
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Goldstone 2 and 3.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Shashanka | ஷஷாஂகா
Other name of Lord Shiva, The Moon
Boy/Male
Sikh
Heavenly body, A star, Pearl
ABLATIVE CASE
ABLATIVE CASE
ABLATIVE CASE
ABLATIVE CASE
ABLATIVE CASE
adv.
By inference; as an illative; in an illative manner.
n.
A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives "who", "which", "that".
a.
Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.
v.
Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child.
a.
Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation; inferential; conclusive; as, an illative consequence or proposition; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc.
v.
Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum.
n.
One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation.
n.
A female relative.
a.
Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.
v.
Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.
a.
Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.
a.
Taking away or removing.
a.
Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
a.
Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
v.
Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever.
n.
An illative particle, as for, because.
v.
Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines.
a.
Abortive.
v.
Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt.