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declinatio

“declinatio” is a Latin word. Its 6 meanings in English:

noun

  1. declination
  2. inclination
  3. avoidance
  4. variation, inflection
  5. declension
  6. every change of a word; declension, conjugation, comparation, derivation etc.

In Latin

  1. Actus declinandi, sive actus quo quis a recta se flectit et curvatur.
  2. nominum inflexio per suos casus.
  3. verborum inflexio per sua tempora.

Etymology

From dēclīnō + -tiō. In the grammatical sense, it is a calque of Ancient Greek ἔγκλισις (énklisis).

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