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English
Etymology
Calque of Latin accūsātīvus absolūtus.
Noun
accusative absolute (plural accusatives absolute or accusative absolutes)
- (grammar) an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the accusative case; present:
- in Ancient Greek, less frequent than the genitive absolute but more than the nominative absolute
- rarely in Middle High German
- in Late Latin
Further reading
- Bauer, Brigitte (2000) Archaic Syntax in Indo-European, Berlin, New York: Mouton De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 261–333