heteroclisis

Noun

 * 1)  The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb, etc

Usage notes
The Italian verb, with forms such as as well as , is an example of suppletion. English examples are, with inflected forms and , and  with past tense.
 * The Anatolian languages had numerous examples of neuter nouns that have their normal nominative/accusative shapes ending in -r while the other cases have -n instead. This heteroclisis is a very old pattern in Indo-European but nowhere else is it preserved so commonly as in Anatolian languages.
 * An example from Italian is the alternation of inflection and gender in nouns such as . Most nouns in are masculine and form plurals in, while most nouns ending in  are feminine and form plurals in .  has two plurals, a feminine plural in  and a masculine plural in , and these two plurals apply to different meanings of the word.

Translations

 * Italian: eteroclisia