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noun
Dated spelling of inflection.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: inflection
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: grammatical relation
Narrower terms: conjugation, declension, paradigm, pluralization, pluralisation
History
From Middle French inflexion, itself from Latin īnflexiō.
