ablative
Meaning of ablative
- denoting a case (especially in Latin) of nouns and pronouns and words in grammatical agreement with them indicating an agent, instrument, or source, expressed by ‘by’, ‘with’, or ‘from’ in English.
- (of surgical treatment) involving ablation.
all nine patients were treated by ablative surgery
- relating to or subject to ablation through melting or evaporation.
the spacecraft's ablative heat shield
noun
a word in the ablative case.
late Middle English: from Old French ablative (feminine of ablatif ), Latin ablativus, from ablat- ‘taken away’ (see ablation).
Information about ablative
Hyphenation of ablative
ab-la-tive
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- ablative is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
ablative synonyms
Meaning oblique:
Translation of ablative
Words that rhyme with ablative
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