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noun
- (grammar): 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.
- (grammar): The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
Translations: - Dutch: verbuiging
- French: déclinaison
- German: (t, de, Beugung, f) (2), Deklination (1,2)
- Italian: declinazione
- Spanish: declinación
Etymology: From declenson, from declinaison (French: déclinaison), from declinatio (genitive, gen. declinationis)
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