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Definition of Desinences
1. desinence [n] - See also: desinence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desinences
Literary usage of Desinences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Introduction to the Grammar of the Romance Languages by Friedrich Christian Diez (1863)
"In one particular Sardinia is quite independant, namely, that it preserves the
Latin desinences in s and / (longas, virtudes, duos, corpus, finit, ..."
2. The Arabic Language: A Lecture Given on December 3, 1868 by Thomas Chenery (1869)
"Yet a little inquiry on the subject reveals this singular phenomenon, that these
desinences of the verb and noun, which are the principal study of the ..."
3. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1887)
"^e have now to set forth the changes which comparison with the cognate Indo-European
languages proves that the desinences have undergone in the change from ..."
4. Theory and Analysis of Ornament Applied to the Work of Elementary and by François Louis Schauermann (1892)
"It is necessary to distinguish palmated dispositions from angular desinences,
and full inside palmated dispositions from inside ..."
5. The Philosophy of Words: A Popular Introduction to the Science of Language by Federico Garlanda (1886)
"The desinences of the cases are nothing but demonstrative roots ; roots ...
The only difference between our prepositions and the desinences of cases is this ..."
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