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NOUNS |
Word forms |
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FORM |
The particular shape or structure of a word or part of
speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms. |
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PARADIGM |
An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word
in all its different forms of inflection. |
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ADENO- |
Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words
relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands. |
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BARBARA |
The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent
the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose
three propositions are universal affirmatives. |
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POLYPTOTON |
A figure by which a word is repeated in different
forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- "My own
heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell." |
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HETEROCLITE |
A word which is irregular or anomalous either in
declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of
inflection in words of a l... |
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CASE |
...f form, of a
noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other
words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relati... |
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TH |
In Old English, the article the, when the following word began
with a vowel, was often written with elision as if a part of the word.
Thus in C... |
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AD- |
...al-, an-, ap-,
ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to
which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels,... |
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NUMBER |
...one (in
some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually)
by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number ... |