Etymology

inflexion

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Today it means: Dated spelling of inflection. Full definition →

Middle French inflexion ← Latin īnflexiō
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromīnflexiō
  2. Middle French · borrowed frominflexion
  3. English todayinflexion

From Middle French inflexion, itself from Latin īnflexiō.

Words from the same roots

Middle Frenchinflexion all →

inflection

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.