1) Declivity 2) Descent 3) Downslope 4) Falloff 5) Grammar 6) Refusal 7) Slump
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1) Inflection 2) Inflexion 3) The Latin second declension
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In linguistics, declension is the inflection of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and articles to indicate number (at least singular and plural), case (nominative or subjective, genitive or possessive, etc.), and gender. A declension is also a group of nouns that follow a particular pattern of inflection. Declension occurs in many of the world`s langu....
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• (n.) A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc. • (n.) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases. • (n.) Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomin...
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(from the article `Greek language`) Not counting the vocative case, the Greek declension in the Mycenaean period still contained five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, ... ...from isolated forms, the locative (indicating place or place where) into the ablative case (originally indicating the relations of separation and ... Bec...
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De·clen'sion noun [ Apparently corrupted from French
déclinaison , from Latin
declinatio , from
declinare . See
Decline , and confer
Declination .]
1. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. « The
declension of the lan...
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In grammar, declension is the aggregate of the inflections or changes of form which nouns, pronouns, and adjectives receive in certain languages according to their meaning or relation to other words in a sentence, such variations being comprehended under the three heads of number, gender, and case, the latter being the most numerous.
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n] - the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages 2. [n] - a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
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noun a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms; `the first declension in Latin`
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the Latin second declension. · the inflection of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives for categories such as case and number. · the whole set of inflected forms of such a word, or the recital thereof in a fixed order. · a class of such words having similar sets of inflected forms:the Latin second declension.
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A term which refers to the inflections of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, i.e. of nouns and the elements which can qualify them. The set of inflections is called a nominal paradigm. The term declension can also be used for classes of nouns which conform to a certain paradigm. It is the equivalent with nouns of the term conjugation with verbs.
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the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
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