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- Ancient Greek · derived fromἄπτωτος“without cases”
- Latin · borrowed fromaptotum
- English todayaptote
From Latin aptotum, from Ancient Greek ἄπτωτος (áptōtos, “without cases”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A noun (broadly speaking) which has no distinction of cases; an indeclinable noun. Full definition →
From Latin aptotum, from Ancient Greek ἄπτωτος (áptōtos, “without cases”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.