ablative absolute
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English
Etymology
Calque of Latin ablativus absolutus.
Pronunciation
Noun
ablative absolute (plural ablatives absolute or ablative absolutes)
- (grammar) A construction in Latin and other sister languages in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, adjective, or noun, expressed or implied, which agrees with it in gender, number and case – both words forming a clause grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence.
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Tarquiniō rēgnante, Pȳthagorās vēnit.
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Translations
linguistic construction in Latin
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See also
Further reading
- Bauer, Brigitte (2000) Archaic Syntax in Indo-European, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 261–333