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declinable

adj
/dɪˈklaɪnəbəɫ/UK

Etymology

From decline + -able.

  1. derived from decliner
  2. inherited from declīnian
  3. derived from *ḱley-✻
  4. derived from declīnō — “to bend, turn aside, deflect, inflect, decline”
  5. inherited from declinen
  6. suffixed as declinable — “decline + able”

Definitions

  1. Capable of being declined

    Capable of being declined; of a word, having inflections.

    • It is obvious that the system in present-day English is radically different, and that the notion of case (i.e. a form or modification of a declinable word) is now of very little significance.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for declinable. 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