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A suffix used as an inflection; an ending; inflectional suffix.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Borrowed from French désinence, from Latin dēsinentia, present participle of dēsinō (“to stop, end, close, make an end”).
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Albanian:
eptim
— inflectional word-ending
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Catalan:
desinència
— inflectional word-ending
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Czech:
koncovka
— inflectional word-ending
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Danish:
endelse
— inflectional word-ending
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Dutch:
uitgang
— inflectional word-ending
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Finnish:
taivutuspääte
— inflectional word-ending
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French:
désinence
— inflectional word-ending
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German:
Endung
— inflectional word-ending
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Hungarian:
végződés
— inflectional word-ending
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Hungarian:
rag
— inflectional word-ending
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Icelandic:
ending
— inflectional word-ending
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Ido:
dezinenco
— inflectional word-ending
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Irish:
foirceann
— inflectional word-ending
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Italian:
desinenza
— inflectional word-ending
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Mongolian:
нөхцөл
(nöxcöl)
— inflectional word-ending
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Norwegian Bokmål:
endelse
— inflectional word-ending
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Norwegian Bokmål:
ending
— inflectional word-ending
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
ending
— inflectional word-ending
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Polish:
końcówka
— inflectional word-ending
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Portuguese:
desinência
— inflectional word-ending
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Russian:
окончание
(okončanije)
— inflectional word-ending
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Spanish:
desinencia
— inflectional word-ending
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Swedish:
ändelse
— inflectional word-ending
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Ukrainian:
закінчення
(zakinčennja)
— inflectional word-ending
