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Definition of Declinable
1. a. Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.
Definition of Declinable
1. Adjective. (grammar) Capable of being declined. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Declinable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Declinable
Literary usage of Declinable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Improved French Grammar: Containing a New Method of Discovering the by John B. Ricord Madianna (1812)
"The passive participles of verbs active direct may also be declinable and
indeclinable. 9. To know when the passive participles of the .verbs ae- th>e ..."
2. A Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both the Classical Language, and the Older by William Dwight Whitney (1896)
"THE frequent combination of declinable stems with one another to form compounds
which then are treated as if simple, in respect to accent, inflection, ..."
3. Reading Book of the Turkish Language, with a Grammar and Vocabulary by William Burckhardt Barker (1854)
"declinable GERUNDS. [ 253.] The verbal noun takes the post-position aJ, and forms
another gerund, which is declinable : as, ..."
4. Mair's Introduction to Latin Syntax by John Mair, David Patterson, Aglionby Ross Carson (1828)
"UPON THE declinable PARTS OF SPEECH. View or scheme of the five modes of declension :
except that Greek word* and neuter* are omitted ; the nominative ..."
5. A Greek Grammar to the New Testament, and to the Common Or Hellenic Diction by William Trollope (1842)
"... in Luke i, 15, is declinable or otherwise. The LXX treat it as undeclinable
in Numb. vi. ... declinable ..."
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