Declension

Noun

 * : A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
 * In Latin, 'amicus' belongs to the second declension. Most second-declension nouns end in '-i' in the genitive singular and '-um' in the accusative singular.
 * : The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.

Hypernyms

 * inflection (inflexion)

Coordinate terms

 * conjugation

Derived terms

 * declensional

Thesaurus
IC analysis, abnegation, accidence, affix, affixation, allomorph, bound morpheme, cascade, catabasis, cataract, chute, collapse, comedown, conjugation, contradiction, crash, cutting, debacle, debasement, decadence, decadency, deceleration, declination, declinature, decline, decline and fall, declining, decrescendo, defluxion, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demotion, denial, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, deprivation, derivation, derogation, descending, descension, descent, deterioration, devolution, difference of form, dilapidation, diminuendo, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disobedience, dissent, dive, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dropping, dwindling, dying, ebb, effeteness, enclitic, fading, failing, fall, falling, falling-off, formative, free form, gravitation, holding back, immediate constituent analysis, inclination, infix, infixation, inflection, involution, lapse, loss of tone, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance, paradigm, plummeting, plunge, pounce, prefix, prefixation, proclitic, radical, rapids, recantation, refusal, regression, rejection, remission, repudiation, retention, retreat, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, root, ruination, slippage, slowdown, slump, stem, stoop, subsidence, suffix, suffixation, swoop, theme, thumbs-down, turndown, unwillingness, wane, waterfall, withholding, word-formation

Etymology
From declenson, from  declinaison (French: déclinaison), from  declinatio (gen. declinationis)

Translations

 * Arabic: (’iʻrāb)  usually of Arabic nouns,  (ṣarf),  (taṣrīfu l-’asmā’)   inflection of nouns
 * Armenian: հոլովում (holovum)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: declinació
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 變格, 变格
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: declinación
 * German:
 * Greek: κλίσις (klísis)


 * Hebrew: נטייה (neti'a)
 * Icelandic: fallbeyging, beyging, beyging falla
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 語形変化 (ごけいへんか, gokei hénka), 変化 (へんか, hénka), ディクレンション (dikurenshon)
 * Korean: 어형변화, 곡용, 어형변화
 * Latin:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: skloňovanie
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: declinación
 * Swedish:, böjning
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: скланяне
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * French:


 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: הטיה (hat'aya)
 * Polish:

Anagrams

 * indolences