heteroclitic
Adjective
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Adjective
heteroclitic
- (linguistics) In linguistics, particularly Indo-European Studies, signifying a stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case. Examples of heteroclitic noun stems in Proto-Indo-European include *wod-r/n- "water" (nominoaccusative *wódr; genitive *udnés; locative *udén) and *yékw-r/n- "liver" (nominoaccusative *yékwr, genitive *ikwnés). In Proto-Indo-European, heteroclitic stems tend to be noun stems with grammatically inanimate gender.
- (microbiology) Pertaining to antibodies that react to a wide variety of antigens.
- French: hétéroclite
- German: heteroklitisch
- Italian: eteroclito
heteroclitic (plural heteroclitics)
- A heteroclitic noun.
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