ABLATIVE ABSOLUTE


Meaning of ABLATIVE ABSOLUTE in English

Latin Gram.

a construction not dependent upon any other part of the sentence, consisting of a noun and a participle, noun and adjective, or two nouns, in which both members are in the ablative case, as Latin via facta, "the road having been made."

[ 1520-30 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .