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Definition of Enclitics
1. n. The art of declining and conjugating words.
Definition of Enclitics
1. Noun. (plural of enclitic) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enclitics
1. enclitic [n] - See also: enclitic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enclitics
Literary usage of Enclitics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"With this correction, the rules of the Latin grammarians about enclitics and ...
Latin Sentence-enclitics. Among Latin Sentence-enclitics we may class ..."
2. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"enclitics usually lose their accent. They are: a. ... Of several enclitics in
succession, each receives an acute accent from ..."
3. Grammar of the Greek Language, for the Use of High Schools and Colleges by Raphael Kühner, Bela Bates Edwards (1844)
"Several small words, which are so combined with enclitics, as to have a ...
Long syllables in enclitics are treated in respect to the accentuation as short; ..."
4. A Handbook to Modern Greek by Edgar Vincent D'Abernon, T. G. Dickson, Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1881)
"enclitics. 1. enclitics are words which throw their accent back on to the ...
If several enclitics follow one another, each throws its accent back on to the ..."
5. A Grammar of the Greek Language by William Edward Jelf (1881)
"V. When there are two or more enclitics in succession, they are formed into one or
... enclitics in the following cases retain their accent, even though the ..."
6. A Greek Grammar for the Use of High Schools & Universities by Philipp Buttmann (1839)
"For the acute on final syllables before enclitics, see § 14. 3. The following
monosyllables, all beginning with a Vowel, ov (ovx, ov%) not, fay as, 11 if, ..."
7. A first book in Greek: containing a full view of the forms of words with by John McClintock, George Richard Crooks (1848)
"What are enclitics ? (Little words so closely ... When do all enclitics retain
their accent ? (After a word which has lost its accent by elision ; eg, ..."
8. A Grammar of the Greek Language by Alpheus Crosby (1847)
"D. enclitics. Some words are attached, in accentuation, to the preceding word,
and are hence called enclitics ..."
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