heteroclitic (0 synonym found)

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Definition of heteroclitic:

(adj) : (linguistics) Irregular in inflection.
(adj) : (microbiology) Pertaining to antibodies that react to a wide variety of antigens.
(adj) : (Indo-European studies) Signifying a nominal stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case, particularly in the suffix, most often between *-r- in the strong stem and *-n- in the weak stem(s). Examples of heteroclitic noun stems in Proto-Indo-European include *wod-r/n- (“water”) (nominoaccusative *wódr̥; genitive *udnés; locative *udén) and *yékʷ-r/n- (“liver”) (nominoaccusative *yékʷr̥, genitive *ikʷnés).
(n) : A heteroclitic noun.

Definition of heteroclitic:

(adj) : (linguistics) Irregular in inflection.
(adj) : (microbiology) Pertaining to antibodies that react to a wide variety of antigens.
(adj) : (Indo-European studies) Signifying a nominal stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case, particularly in the suffix, most often between *-r- in the strong stem and *-n- in the weak stem(s). Examples of heteroclitic noun stems in Proto-Indo-European include *wod-r/n- (“water”) (nominoaccusative *wódr̥; genitive *udnés; locative *udén) and *yékʷ-r/n- (“liver”) (nominoaccusative *yékʷr̥, genitive *ikʷnés).
(n) : A heteroclitic noun.

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