inflect
PROCESS OF WORD FORMATION; A WORD IS MODIFIED TO EXPRESS GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES, SUCH AS TENSE, MOOD, VOICE, ASPECT, PERSON, NUMBER, GENDER AND CASE
Inflexion; Inflectional morpheme; Inflected; Inflections; Inflectional morphology; Inflectional paradigm; Inflectional; Inflexions; Inflective; Grammatical inflection; Accidence; Case inflection; Irregular plural; Inflect; Inflects; Irregular plurals; Inflectional rule; Regular inflection; Regular plural; Irregular inflection; Invariant (linguistics); Inflexional morphology; Inflectional ending
¦ verb
1. Grammar change or be changed by inflection.
2. vary the intonation or pitch of (the voice), especially to express mood or feeling.
3. technical bend or deflect from a straight course, especially inwards.
Derivatives
inflective adjective
Origin
ME: from L. inflectere, from in- 'into' + flectere 'to bend'.