English Explanatory Dictionary

ablative absolute

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Pronunciation

/ˈæb.lə.tɪv æb.soʊˈlut/ /ˈæb.lə.tɪv æb.səˈlut/

Word forms

ablative absolute ablatives absolute ablative absolutes

Etymology

Calque of Latin ablativus absolutus.

Related words

dangling participle genitive absolute free adjunct nominative absolute
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