Ablative

This idea is expressed in Latin by the ablative without a preposition, and the construction is called the «ablative of means»: ❋ Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1900)

_ The ablative denoting the _place where_ is called the _locative ablative_ (cf. «locus», _place_). ❋ Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1900)

This is clearly an ablative relation, and the construction is called the «ablative of the measure of difference». ❋ Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1900)

This idea is expressed in Latin by the ablative without a preposition, and the construction is called the «ablative of cause»: ❋ Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1900)

This idea is expressed in Latin by the ablative with the preposition «cum», and the construction is called the «ablative of accompaniment»: ❋ Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1900)

Father of Eleven calls his blog Nihilo, the ablative case of the Latin word for nothing. ❋ Unknown (2005)

From his study of Latin at the high school in Newton, Massachusetts, he knew the word ablative, for it denoted a grammatical form much loved by Julius Caesar, a no-nonsense engineer himself. ❋ Michener, James (1982)

I have before stated that he wrote a Latin Grammar for the use of his school, and instead of the word ablative, in general use, he compounded three or four Latin words [4] as explanatory of this case. ❋ James Gillman (N/A)

Participants at the meeting concluded that the government needed to regulate the use of the procedure, called ablative surgery. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But in mainstream medicine, the surgery performed on Mr. Mi -- called ablative surgery -- is a last resort for mental illness. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Consider the notion of ablative dissonance (see the Where Are They Now group archive): No one knows what set-up procedures the humans of Straumli Realm were using. ❋ Vinge, Vernor (1992)

[66] _Fatigatus_ is commonly construed with an ablative, which is here to be supplied (_precibus_); but without such an addition, _fatigare_ signifies 'to importune a person with prayers and requests.' ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (N/A)

The closest parallel I have found for this compressed use of the ablative is the idiom at v 7 ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

This is clearly a _with_ relation, and the ablative is the case to use. ❋ Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1900)

I reason that they are QUITE different semantically and the meaning I'm reading from the so-called "ablative" is in fact in the opposite direction: "to", "towards", "facing". ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Rev. John Coleridge was queer enough in having thirteen children: he was queerer still in being the author of a Latin grammar in which he renamed the "ablative" the "quale-quare-quidditive case." ❋ Robert Lynd (1914)

The ablative which is used to express this relation is called the _ablative of time_. ❋ Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1900)

The only indictment that can be brought against the father of Coleridge is that he was a zealous Latin scholar, and proposed that the term "ablative" be abolished as insufficient, and in its stead should be used that of ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)

He was a Hebrew scholar of some eminence, and the compiler of a Latin grammar, in which, among other innovations designed to simplify the study of the language for "boys just initiated," he proposed to substitute for the name of "ablative" that of "quale-quare-quidditive case." ❋ Unknown (1871)