conj.

Noun

conjugation (countable and uncountable, plural conjugations)

1. The coming together of things; a union.
2. The temporary fusion of organisms, especially as part of sexual reproduction.
3. Sexual relations within marriage.
4. In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs categorized into distinct classes based on the specific inflectional patterns they exhibit.
   • In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] , London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue...
5. The act or process of conjugating a verb.
6. The product of that act: the conjugated forms of a verb, collected into a list or recitation.
   • Meronym: principal parts

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