anaptotic

From Ancient Greek ἀνάπτωσις (anáptōsis, “falling back”), in reference to πτῶσις (ptôsis, “grammatical case”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌæn.əpˈtɑt.ɪk/

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anaptotic (not comparable)

1. (linguistics, archaic) Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; uninflected

   anaptotic languages

• “anaptotic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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