"a" or "ab" is a preposition meaning from or by. When it is used in a sentence, the words that it modifies take the ablative case. The difference between "a" and "ab" is like the difference between "a" and "an" in English: the choice depends on whether the next word begins with a consonant or vowel.
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Actually, "ab" would be a prefix meaning not, like abnormal.
This is Latin.
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A root word has no prefix and no suffix. The word "abstract" comes from Middle English, and originally from Latin. It contains the prefix "ab," which means "from". Trahere was Latin for drawn away. So the root word here is "stract," or perhaps "tract."
The Latin words of ab initio translates into English as the word from. In Spanish these words are desde and in Italian it is da.
If you mean (Ab)2 then it is Ab, but if you mean Ab2 then it is square root (A)(b).
Latin, "first inhabitants" or ab origine, "from the beginning."
The word by is a preposition of "a" or "ab"
"a" or "ab" is a preposition meaning from or by. When it is used in a sentence, the words that it modifies take the ablative case. The difference between "a" and "ab" is like the difference between "a" and "an" in English: the choice depends on whether the next word begins with a consonant or vowel.
Actually, "ab" would be a prefix meaning not, like abnormal.
After is one English equivalent of 'ab'. Away fromis another equivalent. Either way, the Latin word 'ab' is a preposition whose object is in the ablative case.
The only words I know that mean that are in Latin, not English: ordo ab chao
"Ab initio" is Latin and means "from the beginning".
Latin, "first inhabitants" or ab origine, "from the beginning."