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acrostatic

acrostatic adjective: in Proto-Indo-European athematic nominals, having a specific pattern of ablaut in which the accent is placed on the root syllable in all cases.

Adjective

acrostatic (not comparable)

  1. In Proto-Indo-European athematic nominals, having a specific pattern of ablaut in which the accent is placed on the root syllable in all cases.
    • The Proto-Indo-European word for ‘night’ was acrostatic: nominative singular *nókʷ-t-s, genitive *nékʷ-t-s.
    Synonyms:
    acrodynamic

Synonyms of acrostatic

Origin of acrostatic

From acro- + static.

Questions about acrostatic

What does acrostatic mean?
Acrostatic means in Proto-Indo-European athematic nominals, having a specific pattern of ablaut in which the accent is placed on the root syllable in all cases.
What part of speech is acrostatic?
Acrostatic is an adjective.

Words near acrostatic in the dictionary

  1. across-the-board
  2. acrosses
  3. acrosst
  4. acrosswise
  5. acrost
  6. acrostatic
  7. acrostealgia
  8. acrostealgias
  9. acrosternite
  10. acrosternites
  11. acrostic

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