Topic: GRAMMAR
| Date: | 1400-1500 |
| Language: | French |
| Origin: | déclinaison, from Latin declinare 'to turn aside, inflect' |
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de‧clen‧sion
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[countable]1SLG the set of various forms that a noun, pronoun, or adjective can have according to whether it is the subject, object etc of a sentence in a language such as Latin or German
2SLG a particular set of nouns etc that all have the same set of forms
