English-Thai Dictionary

declension

N ทาง ลาดเอียง  การ ลงท้าย คำ ใน การแสดง หน้าที่ ของ คำ นั้น 

 

declensional

A ที่ ลาดเอียง ลง 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DECLENSION

n. 1. Literally, a leaning back or down; hence, a falling or declining towards a worse state; a tendency towards a less degree of excellence or perfection. The declension of a state is manifested by corruption of morals. We speak of the declension of virtue, of manners, of taste, of the sciences, of the fine arts, and sometimes of life or years; but in the latter application, decline is more generally used.
2. Declination; a declining; descent; slope; as the declension of the shore towards the sea.
3. In grammar, inflection of nouns, adjectives and pronouns; the declining, deviation or leaning of the termination of a word from the termination of the nomitive case; change of termination to form the oblique cases. Thus from rex in the nominative case, are formed regis in the genitive, regi in the dative, regem in the accusative, and rege in the ablative.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DECLENSION

De *clen "sion, n. Etym: [Apparently corrupted fr. F. déclinaison, fr. L. declinatio, fr. declinare. See Decline, and cf. Declination. ]

 

1. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. The declension of the land from that place to the sea. T. Burnet.

 

2. A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc. Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts To base declension. Shak.

 

3. Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.

 

4. (Gram. ) (a ) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc. , according to the grammatical cases. (b ) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc. (c ) Rehearsing a word as declined.

 

Note: The nominative was held to be the primary and original form, and was likened to a perpendicular line; the variations, or oblique cases, were regarded as fallings (hence called casus, cases, or fallings ) from the nominative or perpendicular; and an enumerating of the various forms, being a sort of progressive descent from the noun's upright form, was called a declension. Harris. Declension of the needle, declination of the needle.

 

DECLENSIONAL

DECLENSIONAL De *clen "sion *al, a.

 

Defn: Belonging to declension. Declensional and syntactical forms. M. Arnold.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

declension

de clen sion |diˈklenSHən dəˈklɛn (t )ʃən | ▶noun 1 (in the grammar of Latin, Greek, and other languages ) the variation of the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, by which its grammatical case, number, and gender are identified. • the class to which a noun or adjective is assigned according to the manner of this variation. 2 literary a condition of decline or moral deterioration: the declension of the new generation. DERIVATIVES de clen sion al |-SHənl |adjective ORIGIN late Middle English declinson, from Old French declinaison, from decliner ‘to decline. ’ The change in the ending was probably due to association with words such as ascension .

 

Oxford Dictionary

declension

declension |dɪˈklɛnʃ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 (in the grammar of Latin, Greek, and certain other languages ) the variation of the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, by which its grammatical case, number, and gender are identified. • [ count noun ] the class to which a noun or adjective is assigned according to the manner of this variation. 2 archaic a condition of decline or moral deterioration: the declension of the new generation. DERIVATIVES declensional adjective ORIGIN late Middle English declinson, from Old French declinaison, from decliner ‘to decline ’. The change in the ending was probably due to association with words such as ascension .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

declension

de clen sion /dɪklénʃ (ə )n /名詞 U C 1 〘文法 〙(名詞 代名詞 形容詞の )語形変化 ; 格変化 ; 変化形 ; 同一語形変化語群 (→inflection ).2 ｟古 ｠衰退 .3 ｟古 ｠傾斜 .