Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to a desinence; terminational; terminal; desinent: as, the desinential -it for -ed in dialectal English.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Terminal.

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  • adjective terminal

Etymologies

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From Medieval Latin dēsinentia +‎ -al. Compare French désinentiel.

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