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heteroclisis

heteroclisis noun: the presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb, etc.

Noun

heteroclisis

  1. The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb, etc

Questions about heteroclisis

What does heteroclisis mean?
Heteroclisis means the presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb, etc.
What part of speech is heteroclisis?
Heteroclisis is a noun.

Words near heteroclisis in the dictionary

  1. heterochthonic
  2. heterochthonous
  3. heterochylia
  4. heterocladic
  5. heteroclinic
  6. heteroclisis
  7. heteroclite
  8. heteroclites
  9. heteroclitic
  10. heteroclitical
  11. heterocliticity

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