Dictionary

inflexion en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle French inflexion, itself from Latin īnflexiō.

Meanings

1. (UK, countable, uncountable) Dated spelling of inflection.
   • “Connexion” is the etymological (ie, “correct”) spelling. That is to say, our word is derived from an actual Latin noun, cf. deflexion, inflexion, and reflexion. […] And it might make life easier to abolish the letter “x”. But why should we cut off the fascinating roots of our words? I should carry on preferring “connexion”. [2005 April 11, Philip Howard, “Modern Manners”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2026:
   • […] I do not like the studied air and artificial inflexions of voice which your very popular and most admired preachers generally have. c. 1803–1805, Jane Austen, “The Watsons”, in J[ames] E[dward] Austen[-]Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen: […] to which is Added Lady Susan and Fragments of Two Other Unfinished Tales by Miss Austen, 2nd edition, London: Richard Bentley and Son, […], published 1871, →OCLC, page 338:

Forms

Deriveds

inflexionless