Etymology

inflection

in·flec·tion
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Today it means: The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby words take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features. Full definition →

Middle French inflexion ← Latin inflexiōnem
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frominflexiōnem“alteration”
  2. Middle French · borrowed frominflexion
  3. English todayinflection

From older inflexion, borrowed from Middle French inflexion, itself borrowed from Latin inflexiōnem (“alteration”, literally “bending”). The English spelling with ⟨ct⟩ is due to influence from inflect or related words like correction.

Words from the same roots

Middle Frenchinflexion all →

inflexion

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