abl.

British  

abbreviation

1. ablative

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abl.

Appositive of locative, 169, 4; —— with acc. of limit of motion, 182, 2, a; —— with town names, in abl. of place whence, 229, 2. —— position of, 350, 2. aptus, w. dat.,

From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett

Note.—Notice here the rendering of the Lat. abl. absol., an idiom foreign to our language except for example in the so-called nom. absol. of Milton.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The dat. and abl. sing. are the only terminations that were not affected.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell

The abl. sing. of this form—Hiberione—is found in the Book of Armagh, a Latin MS. of the early part of the ninth century.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller

The oblique cases in the singular have no s, because the accusative in Latin, and likewise the gen., dat., and abl., ended either in vowels, which became mute, or in m, which was dropped.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller