desinenza — meaning in English
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English meaning
- inflection noun The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
- termination noun The act of ending something, or the state of having ended.
Senses
desinenza is used for these senses in English:
- desinence (linguistics) A suffix used as an inflection; an ending; inflectional suffix.
- inflection (grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
- termination (grammar) The last part of a word.
inflection — full definition
- noun The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
- noun Any specific type of morphological variation, which applies to a given class of terms.
- noun An affix representing a given variation.
- noun Any specific morphological form of a particular term, such as the principal parts for any given stem; any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
termination — full definition
- noun The act of ending something, or the state of having ended.
- noun The ending of someone's employment.
- noun The deliberate ending of a pregnancy.