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The inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
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declension
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages process of changing to an inferior state [syn: deterioration , decline in quality , worsening ] a downward slope or bend [syn: descent , declivity , fall , decline , declination ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., ultimately from Latin declinationem (nominative declinatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of declinare (see decline (v.)); perhaps via French; "the form is irregular, and its history obscure" [OED].
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context grammar English) The act of decline a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order. 2 (context grammar English) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Declension \De*clen"sion\, n. [Apparently corrupted fr. F. d['e]clinaison, fr. L. declinatio, fr. declinare. See Decline , and cf. Declination .] The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. The declension of the land from that place ...
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Usage examples of declension.
The words denoting kindred, the pronouns, the conjugations, and the declensions, corresponded closely to those of the Tartar tribes of Siberia.
The wonderful German syntax seems at its most enigmatical in this sort of literature, and sometimes they lost themselves in its labyrinths completely, and only made their way perilously out with the help of cumulative declensions, past articles and adjectives blindly seeking their nouns, to long-procrastinated verbs dancing like swamp-fires in the distance.
Moreover, the openings cut in the capricious rock by roads which follow its declensions and make the ampitheatre habitable, give vistas through which some estates can see the city, or the river, or the sea.
The language is subtle and loosely regulated, with its circumlocutory word orders, its vague declensions, its doubled conjugations, both synthetic and periphrastic, with its old "story" forms mixed with formal verb patterns.
The modern Italian has been insensibly formed by the mixture of nations: the awkwardness of the Barbarians in the nice management of declensions and conjugations reduced them to the use of articles and auxiliary verbs.
Nonetheless, he broke Salt down, made careful lists of declensions and conjugations and grammar.