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 one case.
  • noun grammar A noun having only one ending for the oblique cases.

Etymologies

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Latin monoptotum, from Ancient Greek single + apt to fall, fallen.

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