Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to flection; serving to bend or vary; specifically, pertaining to the terminal variation of words; inflectional.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to flection; serving to bend or vary, specifically, pertaining to the
terminal variation of words;inflectional .
Etymologies
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flection + -al
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Examples
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Wholly distinct from the Russians and segregated from them by a barrier of swampy forests, we find the Letto-Lithuanians in the Baltic province of Courland, speaking the most primitive form of flectional languages classed as Aryan.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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