inflexion
See also: inflexión
English
Etymology
From Middle French inflexion, itself from Latin īnflexiō.
Noun
inflexion (countable and uncountable, plural inflexions)
- Alternative spelling of inflection
- c. 1803–1805, Jane Austen, “The Watsons”, in J[ames] E[dward] Austen[-]Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen: […] to which is Added Lady Susan and Fragments of Two Other Unfinished Tales by Miss Austen, 2nd edition, London: Richard Bentley and Son, […], published 1871, →OCLC, page 338:
- […] I do not like the studied air and artificial inflexions of voice which your very popular and most admired preachers generally have.
French
Etymology
From Latin īnflexiōnem.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
inflexion f (plural inflexions)
- change, especially a slight drop
- bow (of the body or head)
- (mathematics) inflection
- (linguistics) vowel mutation
Derived terms
References
- “inflexion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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