ablative absolute

== English == === Etymology === Calque of Latin ablativus absolutus. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /ˈæb.lə.tɪv æb.soʊˈlut/ (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈæb.lə.tɪv æb.səˈlut/ === Noun === ablative absolute (plural ablatives absolute or ablative absolutes) (grammar) 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. ==== Translations ==== === See also === dangling participle genitive absolute free adjunct nominative absolute === Further reading === Bauer, Brigitte (2000), Archaic Syntax in Indo-European, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 261–333