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Terminations |
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LATINIZE |
To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign
words, in writing Latin. |
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INDECINABLE |
Not declinable; not varied by inflective terminations;
as, nihil (nothing), in Latin, is an indeclinable noun. |
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NEUTER |
A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which
have the terminations usually found in neuter words. |
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INFLECT |
To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to
decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb. |
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FEMININE |
Any one of those words which are the appellations of
females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words;
as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix. |
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TWIBIL |
A kind of mattock, or ax; esp., a tool like a pickax, but
having, instead of the points, flat terminations, one of which is
parallel to the handle, the other perpendicular to it. |
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MACARONIC |
...nacular
words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with genuine Latin
words, and with hybrid formed by adding Latin terminations to ot... |
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APONEUROSIS |
Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasciae
which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many
muscles. They often di... |
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INFUNDIBULUM |
...dy; the infundibula
of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes. ... |