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indeclinably

indeclinably adverb: without declination (variation of termination in a word).

Adverb

indeclinably (not comparable)

  1. Without declination (variation of termination in a word).
    • c. In the older language, the numerals for 5 and upward are sometimes used in the nom.-acc. form (or as if indeclinably) with other cases also: thus, páñca kṛṣṭíṣu among the five races; saptá rṣīṇām of seven bards; sahásram ṛ́ṣibhiḥ with a thousand bards; çatám pūrbhíḥ with a hundred strongholds....1889, William Dwight Whitney, Sanskrit Grammar

Origin of indeclinably

From indeclinable + -ly.

Questions about indeclinably

What does indeclinably mean?
Indeclinably means without declination (variation of termination in a word).
What part of speech is indeclinably?
Indeclinably is an adverb.

Words near indeclinably in the dictionary

  1. indeclension
  2. indeclinability
  3. indeclinable
  4. indeclinableness
  5. indeclinables
  6. indeclinably
  7. indecomponible
  8. indecomposability
  9. indecomposable
  10. indecomposableness
  11. indecomposables

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