The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκλιτικός“inflexional”
- English todayclitic
From Ancient Greek κλιτικός (klitikós, “inflexional”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
clitic
Today it means: A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word). Full definition →
Ancient Greek κλιτικός