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heteroclitic

adj

Etymology

From hetero- + clitic.

  1. derived from κλιτικός
  2. prefixed as heteroclitic — “hetero + clitic”

Definitions

  1. Irregular in inflection.

  2. Signifying a nominal stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for…

    Signifying a nominal stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case, particularly in the suffix (such as between *-r̥- in the strong stem and *-n̥- in the weak stem).

  3. Pertaining to antibodies that react to a wide variety of antigens.

    • […] a heteroclitic response was never observed after the immunization with the deamidated peptide […]
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A heteroclitic noun.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for heteroclitic. 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