partitive ablative
The 'partitive ablative' is a grammatical case used in languages like Latin and Greek to indicate the separation of a part from a whole.
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Definition
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(technical, academic)A grammatical case used to show that a part is taken or separated from a larger whole, often accompanied by prepositions meaning 'from' or 'out of'.
Example
- In Latin, 'septem ex militibus' means 'seven from the soldiers,' with 'ex militibus' in the partitive ablative case.
Similar
Terms that have similar or relatively close meanings to "partitive ablative":
partitive dativedative absoluteaccusative absolutegenitive absolutedative of purposelocative absolutenominative absolutemixed declension