inflection
Etymology
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Etymology
From older inflexion, borrowed from Middle French inflexion, itself borrowed from Latin inflexio.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ɪnˈflɛkʃən/
inflection
- (grammar, uncountable) A change in the form of a word (morphologic change) to express different grammatical categories.
- In English, word order often does the work that inflection did in Latin
- (grammar, countable) An instance of such change.
- an inflection for gender, number, or tense
- (grammar) An affix representing such an instance.
- English's regular inflection for number in plural nouns is the suffix -s.
- (grammar, countable) Any form produced by such an instance of a change, such as the principal parts for any given stem: any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
- Recite every inflection for each of these words.
- A change in pitch or tone of voice.
- If he's lying, his inflection changes.
- (mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
- A turning away from a straight course.
- inflection from the rules
- (optometry) Diffraction.
- French: flexion
- German: Flexion, Beugung, Biegung
- Italian: desinenza, flessione
- Portuguese: flexão
- Russian: фле́ксия
- Spanish: flexión
- German: Betonung
- Italian: inflessione, cadenza, calata, modulazione, intonazione
- Portuguese: inflexão, entonação
- Russian: модуля́ция
- Spanish: inflexión
- Italian: inflessione
- Portuguese: inflexão
- Russian: переги́б
- French: inflexion
- Portuguese: inflexão, desvio
- Russian: отклоне́ние
- Spanish: inflexión
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