Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In grammar, a noun or an adjective having but one case-form
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gram.) A noun having only one case.
- noun A noun having only one ending for the oblique cases.
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- noun grammar A
noun having only onecase . - noun grammar A noun having only one
ending for theoblique cases .
Etymologies
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Latin monoptotum, from Ancient Greek single + apt to fall, fallen.
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