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ablative absolute

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Etymology

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Calque of Latin ablativus absolutus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ablative absolute (plural ablatives absolute or ablative absolutes)

  1. (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.
Examples

Tarquiniō rēgnante, Pȳthagorās vēnit.

Tarquin reigning (or: In Tarquin’s reign), Pythagoras came.

cibō bonō, bene ēdērunt.

The food being good, they ate well.

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Further reading

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  • Bauer, Brigitte (2000) Archaic Syntax in Indo-European, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 261–333