Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

declense

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: de-clense
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To decline (to inflect for case and number).

Example Sentences

"In moorish vulgar Arabic there is no true declensing because the final sings are suppressed; See page 13 N°- 30, one form alone being vulgarly used for all the cases in determinate as well as indeterminate nouns."
"I reckon that Lichtenstein had found a Latin genitive abdimi ('of Abdim') but thought it was in the nominative case, not yet declensed in the genitive, and that the person's name was Abdimi, so he applied yet again a Latin genitival suffix."

Etymology

Back-formation from declension.

Word Breakdown

Root: *ḱley-

Inflected Forms

declenses (present, singular) declensing (participle, present) declensed (participle, past) declensed (past)

Questions

What does declense mean?: To decline (to inflect for case and number).
Where does declense come from?: Back-formation from declension.

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