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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

uninflected en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + inflected.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a language) That does not use inflection.
  2. (not-comparable, of a word) That has not been inflected.
    • It seems that many such technical words (grada, minuta, introitus) were left in the uninflected state when contracted in any customary form such as we have […] 1955: Geoffrey Chaucer, Richard Middlewood Wilson, Simon Bredon, Derek John de Solla Price, and Peterhouse (University of Cambridge) Library, The Equatorie of the Planetis, page 161 (Cambridge University Press)

Deriveds

uninflectedness

Translations (6)

el άκλιτος (of a word) · nl onverbogen (of a word) · hu ragozatlan (of a word) · pl nieodmienny (of a language) · pl nieodmienny (of a word) · cs neohebný (of a word)