anaptotic
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀνάπτωσις (anáptōsis, “falling back”), in reference to πτῶσις (ptôsis, “grammatical case”).
Adjective
[edit]anaptotic (not comparable)
- (linguistics, archaic) Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; uninflected
- anaptotic languages
References
[edit]- “anaptotic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.