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Definition of Inflectional ending
1. Noun. An inflection that is added at the end of a root word.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inflectional Ending
Literary usage of Inflectional ending
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"C. Note always drop the e of the inflectional ending before n in the indicative
... When e constitutes of itself the inflectional ending, it can never be ..."
2. A Greek Grammar for Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1920)
"Some stems are identical with roots (root-stems, 193) to which only an inflectional
ending, or no ending at all, has been added. ß°vi ox, cow /tS-s mouse is ..."
3. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"... generally consist of two distinct parts : a stem and an inflectional ending (158)
... to which only an inflectional ending needs to be added to form the ..."
4. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"Some roots are also stems (root-stems'), to which only an inflectional ending
needs to be added to form the complete word ..."
5. A Latin Grammar for the Use of Schools by Johan Nikolai Madvig, George Woods, Thomas Anthony Thacher (1892)
"Properly speaking, the derivative ending forms only the stem of the new word,
which does not become an actual word till it receives the inflectional ending ..."
6. A Latin Grammar for the Use of Schools by Johan Nikolai Madvig (1888)
"Properly speaking, the derivative ending forms only the stem of the new word,
which does not become an actual word till it receives the inflectional ending ..."
7. The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: The Knightes Tale, the Nonnes Prestes Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer (1901)
"The plural is found without inflectional ending in a number of neuter nouns whose
nom. plu. in OE had no inflectional ending; eg twenty yeer of age 601, ..."
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