Ablative vs Accusative - What's the difference?
ablative | accusative |
(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, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
(obsolete) Pertaining to taking away or removing.
* , 1622The Works of Joseph Hall: Sermons (http://books.google.com/books?id=6KA9AAAAYAAJ), page 123
(engineering, nautical) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying, as in ablative paints used for antifouling. .
(medical) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
(geology) Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
Producing accusations; accusatory; accusatorial; in a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame
:* This hath been a very accusative age —
(grammar) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin, Lithuanian and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb has its limited influence. Other parts of speech, including secondary or predicate direct objects, will also influence a sentence’s construction. In German the case used for direct objects.
As nouns the difference between ablative and accusative
is that ablative is while accusative is (grammar) the accusative case.As an adjective accusative is
producing accusations; accusatory; accusatorial; in a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame.ablative
English
(wikipedia ablative)Adjective
(-)- Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth.