Definizione monolingua

ablative

ablative (plural ablatives)

1. (grammar) The ablative case.

ablative (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Taking away or removing.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Joseph Hall

     Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth.

2. (grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.
3. (engineering, nautical) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying, as in ablative paints used for antifouling.

Definizione dizionario ablative

	ablativo
	applied to one of the cases of the noun in other language
	(grammar) the ablative case
	The case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb.

Altri significati:

(engineering, nautical) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying, as in ablative paints used for antifouling.

(grammar) The ablative case.

(grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.

(obsolete) Taking away or removing.