declension
nounEtymology
From late Middle English declinson, from Middle French declinaison (Modern French: déclinaison), from Latin dēclīnātiō. Doublet of declination.
- derived from dēclīnātiō
- derived from declinaison
- inherited from declinson
Definitions
A falling off, decay or descent.
- The custom of rolling a burning wheel down a hill […] might well pass for an imitation of the sun's course in the sky, and the imitation would be especially appropriate on Midsummer Day when the sun's annual declension begins.
The act of declining a word
The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
The product of that act
The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
- a page full of declensions
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A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they…
A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
- In Latin, 'amicus' belongs to the second declension. Most second-declension nouns end in '-i' in the genitive singular and '-um' in the accusative singular.
The neighborhood
- synonymdeclination
- neighbormisdecline
- neighborflection
- neighborflexion
- neighborinflection
- neighborinflexion
- neighboraccidence
- neighborfirst declension
- neighborfourth declension
- neighbormixed declension
- neighborsecond declension
- neighborstrong declension
- neighborthird declension
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for declension. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA