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- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀνάπτωσις“falling back”
- English todayanaptotic
From Ancient Greek ἀνάπτωσις (anáptōsis, “falling back”), in reference to πτῶσις (ptôsis, “grammatical case”).
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anaptotic
Today it means: Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; uninflected Full definition →
Ancient Greek ἀνάπτωσις