In Linguistic, the ablative is a Cas expressing the place (open) since which occurs a displacement.

Example: in Finnish (suffix - lta/-ltä ): piha “court” → pihalta “since the court”.

In Latin the ablative indicates also the place of origin (with prepositions like ab , ex , of , but also the source, the matter in which is made a thing… Employee alone it is equivalent to instrumental, and has a value additional of means. With the preposition cum , it takes a value of accompaniment.

The Latin ablative also has a value of locative (with the preposition in ) and makes it possible to indicate the place where one is (in opposition to the accusative who indicates the place where one goes). It also gets busy to locate in time.

Example for Latin: In villa Scipionis vidi balneolum angustum, tenebricosum ex consuetudine antiqua…

• Sénèque, Extracted the Letters in Lucilius , 86.

Note that the Finnish ablative corresponds to an ablative in Hungarian when it means “”, “from” or “of beside” and with Délatif when it means “top of”: kaduin katolta ↔ I fell from the roof.

In the possessive meaning , it is the case of the dispossession: removed häneltä ↔ take to him .

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In Astronautics, a flow of matter or radiation producing a ablation is described as ablative .