ablative absolute

Calque of Latin ablativus absolutus.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæb.lə.tɪv æb.soʊˈlut/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈæb.lə.tɪv æb.səˈlut/

ablative absolute (plural ablatives absolute or ablative absolutes)

1. (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.

• dangling participle
• genitive absolute
• free adjunct
• nominative absolute

• Bauer, Brigitte (2000) Archaic Syntax in Indo-European, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 261–333