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declension

[ UK /dɪklˈɛnʃən/ ]
[ US /dəˈkɫɛnʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
  2. a downward slope or bend
  3. a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
    the first declension in Latin
  4. process of changing to an inferior state

How To Use declension In A Sentence

  • A convenient summary of Latin declension and conjugation is available on-line here.
  • the first declension in Latin
  • It belongs to the class of languages called agglutinative, common to the Tauranian race; i.e., it consists of words "glued together," without declension of conjugation. Easton's Bible Dictionary
  • I agree that some of the words used might have been simple postpositions like '*-pi', while the others fully-fledged declensional cases. Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns
  • Information is a mere click away on the net and if you were honestly knowlegeable in Hurrian than you'd have surely read Woodard, The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor 2008, p.94 which gives a clear summary of the Hurrian declensional system. Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
  • In the future, additional functions will be incorporated so that kanji and kana can be used properly and declensional kana endings can be checked.
  • That at least is the doctrine of Gibbon; but perhaps it would not be found altogether able to sustain itself against a closer and philosophic examination of the true elements involved in the idea of declension as applied to political bodies. The Caesars
  • Health, strength, agility, and animal spirits, she may sorrowing feel diminish; but she hears everyone complain of similar failures, and she misses them unmurmuring, though not unlamenting; but of beauty, every declension is marked with something painful to self-love. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • The -m would be added by the Romans to fit their declensional types, or alternatively, it could be through an Etruscan derivative with the mass noun suffix -am. A Minoan word for red dye
  • Third Declension which have a short penult in the Genitive; as, segĕs New Latin Grammar
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