irregularly-declined
|ir-reg-u-lar-ly-de-clined|
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/ɪˈrɛɡjələrli dɪˈklaɪnd/
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/ɪˈrɛɡjʊləli dɪˈklaɪnd/
non-standard inflection
Etymology
'irregularly-declined' originates from the combination of 'irregularly' and 'declined', where 'irregularly' means 'not following a pattern' and 'declined' refers to the grammatical inflection of words.
'irregularly' comes from the Latin word 'irregularis', and 'declined' comes from the Latin word 'declinare', meaning 'to bend or turn aside'.
Initially, 'irregularly' meant 'not regular', and 'declined' meant 'bent downwards', but together they evolved to describe words that do not follow standard grammatical rules.
Meanings by Part of Speech
Adjective 1
describes a word that does not follow the standard rules of inflection in a language.
The word 'child' is irregularly-declined as its plural form is 'children' instead of 'childs'.
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Last updated: 2025/04/14 18:39