Synonyms for inflection
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modulation, accent, declension, prosody, conjugation, case, paradigm, flexure, flexion dated
Definitions
- n. 1
The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby words take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
In English, word order often does the work that inflection did in Latin.
Related words
- Word family
- inflectional inflectionless inflect
- Phrases
- inflection point point of inflection
- Other spellings
- inflexion UK
Forms
- Plural
- inflections → bends, bendings, crooks, modulations…
Example sentences
- accent The accent of this word is on the second syllable.
- conjugation In the Russian language, conjugation is very complex.
- declension The Latin noun "hortus" belongs to the o-declension.
- prosody Prosody semantics is related to pragmatics.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| inflection | rising | |
| accent | rising | |
| conjugation | steady | |
| declension | steady | |
| prosody | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- case1, bend1
- 5 letters
- crook1
- 6 letters
- accent2
- 7 letters
- bending2, flexion2, prosody3, flexure
- 8 letters
- paradigm3
- 10 letters
- modulation4, declension3
- 11 letters
- conjugation4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (accent2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- inflexion
- Italiano
- inflessione
- Català
- inflexió