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  2. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    The citation form for nouns (the form normally shown in Latin dictionaries) is the Latin nominative singular, ... alter-other: adulterant, adulterate, ...

  3. Latin declension - Wikipedia

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    Latin declension is the set of patterns according to which Latin words are declined—that is, have their endings altered to show grammatical case, number and gender.Nouns, pronouns, and adjectives are declined (verbs are conjugated), and a given pattern is called a declension.

  4. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Exceptions include proper nouns, which typically are not translated, and kinship terms, which may be too complex to translate. Proper nouns/names may simply be repeated in the gloss, or may be replaced with a placeholder such as "(name. F)" or "PN(F)" (for a female name). For kinship glosses, see the dedicated section below for a list of ...

  5. Morphological derivation - Wikipedia

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    noun-to-verb: -fy (glory → glorify) verb-to-adjective: -able (drink → drinkable) verb-to-noun : -ance (deliver → deliverance) verb-to-noun : -er (write → writer) However, derivational affixes do not necessarily alter the lexical category; they may change merely the meaning of the base and leave the category unchanged.

  6. Alter - Wikipedia

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    Alter ego, or "alter" in popular usage, a "second self" Archbishop Alter High School, a Roman Catholic high school in Kettering, Ohio; See also. Altar (disambiguation)

  7. Construct state - Wikipedia

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    In Berber, the construct state is used for the possessor, for objects of prepositions, nouns following numerals, and subjects occurring before their verb (modified from the normal VSO order). In some cases, (not) applying the construct state could completely alter the meaning of the phrase. The Berber particle d means "and" and "is/are".

  8. Suffix - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs.

  9. Irarutu language - Wikipedia

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    Nouns are words that can be placed in the subject or object portions of a sentence and can be modified for possessive relations. There are three functions of noun phrases: semantic function, pragmatic function, and grammatical function. In Irarutu, the grammatical function for nouns and pronouns do not differ for unique situations. [3]