declension

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Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#DECLENSIONCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱley- (incline)#DECLENSION

From late Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#DECLENSIONCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#DECLENSION declinson, from Middle FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#DECLENSION declinaison (Modern French: déclinaison), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#DECLENSION dēclīnātiō. Doublet of declinationCategory:English doublets#DECLENSION.

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declension (countable and uncountable, plural declensions)Category:English lemmas#DECLENSIONCategory:English nouns#DECLENSIONCategory:English uncountable nouns#DECLENSIONCategory:English countable nouns#DECLENSIONCategory:English countable nouns#DECLENSIONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DECLENSIONCategory:Pages with entries#DECLENSIONCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DECLENSION

  1. A falling off, decay or descent.
    • 1845, Lydia Sigourney, Scenes in my Native Land, The Great Oak of Geneseo, page 86:
      Refinement of feeling, intellectual tastes, and a noble hospitality, were among the features of his character; and hoary years brought no mental declension, and drew no shade over the ardent affections by which he was distinguished, and in whose reciprocity, was his undeclining solace.
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    • 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 268:
      The custom of rolling a burning wheel down a hill […] might well pass for an imitation of the sun's course in the sky, and the imitation would be especially appropriate on Midsummer Day when the sun's annual declension begins.
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  2. (grammarCategory:en:Grammar#DECLENSION) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
  3. (grammarCategory:en:Grammar#DECLENSION) The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
  4. (grammarCategory:en:Grammar#DECLENSION) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
    In Latin, 'amicus' belongs to the second declension. Most second-declension nouns end in '-i' in the genitive singular and '-um' in the accusative singular.Category:English terms with usage examples#DECLENSION

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