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anaptotic

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an⋅ap⋅tot⋅ic

  [an-uhp-tot-ik]
–adjective Archaic.
(of languages) tending to become uninflected, in accordance with a theory that languages evolve from uninflected to inflected and back.
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Origin:
1840–50; an- 3 + aptote (< Gk áptōton, n. use of neut. of áptōtos uninflected, not falling, equiv. to a- a- 6 + ptōtós falling, verbid of píptein to fall) + -ic
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