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Definition of Desinence
1. n. Termination; ending.
Definition of Desinence
1. Noun. (linguistics) A suffix used as an inflection; an ending ¹
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Definition of Desinence
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desinence
Literary usage of Desinence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theory and Analysis of Ornament Applied to the Work of Elementary and by François Louis Schauermann (1892)
"In (3) the size of the space is declining from the starting-point to the desinence;
in (4) the size of the space is declining from the point of ..."
2. The Celtic Magazine by Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain (1887)
"The Gothic of the 4th century, the Old German, and the Old Saxon of the pth still
preserve the long vowel of the desinence of the genitive plural. ..."
3. The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu (1893)
"In old-time Moscovia this now almost universal desinence was used only by persons
of some standing. Only one merchant family, which formed in itself a sort ..."
4. Introduction to the Grammar of the Romance Languages by Friedrich Christian Diez (1863)
"G, j, x are palatal; but their application, in the desinence especially, ...
C, the guttural, is written ch in the desinence, for which no sufficient reason ..."
5. The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu (1893)
"If there is any kind of distinction in this matter, it lies not in the family
names, but in the desinence vitch (feminine, vaa), which the Russians add to ..."
6. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1887)
"... which in desinence (after infecting a preceding vowel) is often dropt.
acute au (1) remains intact or becomes ao or o: (2) followed by a slender vowel ..."
7. Transactions of the Canadian Institute by Canadian Institute (1849-1914). (1899)
"They constitute the desinence of the words in the Aryan languages. A few examples
will, I think, be of use as a means of illustrating the above propositions ..."
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