heteroclitic

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1)  In linguistics, particularly Indo-European Studies, signifying a stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case. Examples of heteroclitic noun stems in Proto-Indo-European include *wod-r/n- "water" (nominoaccusative *wódr; genitive *udnés; locative *udén) and *yékw-r/n- "liver" (nominoaccusative *yékwr, genitive *ikwnés). In Proto-Indo-European, heteroclitic stems tend to be noun stems with grammatically inanimate gender.
 * 2)  Pertaining to antibodies that react to a wide variety of antigens.

Translations

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 * Latin: heteroclitus, heterocliticus
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Noun

 * 1) A heteroclitic noun.