(n) :
a way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive; the act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order
"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."
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(n) :
a way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive; the act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order
"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."