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abbreviation

  1. ablative

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Spondee, 368, 1. sponte suā, abl. accordance, 220, 3. spontis, -e, defective, 57, 2, b.

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

Freeing, abl. w. verbs of, 214, 1, a. frēnum, plu. of, 60, 2.

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

Means, abl. of, 218; —— abl. abs. denoting, 227, 2; —— denoted by partic.,

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

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 Luce, Edmund

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 Müller, Max