Ablative of Comparison w/ Relative Pronoun?

1. What is the ablative of comparison?
2. What is the Latin ABL of comparison?
3. How to do comparisons in Latin?
4. What is ablative of respect?

What is the ablative of comparison?

The ablative of comparison is, in fact, a simpler construction than quam + same case—no conjunction and no variable case depending on the thing to which the comparison is being made—when associated with a comparative, the ablative simply connotes "than" (see Wheelock, p. 377).

What is the Latin ABL of comparison?

Latin has another way of saying “than:” the ablative of comparison in which the equivalent of the word following “than” in English is put in the ablative case — no quam, no preposition — just the word in the ablative.

How to do comparisons in Latin?

To form the comparative of most Latin adjectives we use the ending '-ior' for the masculine and feminine forms and the ending '-ius' for the neuter form. For example: The comparative for pulcher, pulchra, pulchrum 'beautiful' is pulchrior (masculine), pulchrior (feminine) and pulchrius (neuter) 'more beautiful'.

What is ablative of respect?

The ablative case is used to give more specific information about an action (verb) or adjective. This is called either the ablative of respect or specification, and it's best understood, in my opinion, through examples. This video also touches upon the ablative supine, which is also an ablative of respect. Views: 4,907.