Etymology

desinence

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Today it means: A suffix used as an inflection; an ending; inflectional suffix. Full definition →

French désinence ← Latin dēsinentia
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  1. Latin · derived fromdēsinentia
  2. French · borrowed fromdésinence
  3. English todaydesinence

Borrowed from French désinence, from Latin dēsinentia, present participle of dēsinō (“to stop, end, close, make an end”).

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