a termination or ending, as the final line of a verse.
2.
Grammar. a termination, ending, or suffix of a word.
Origin: 1590–1600; < F < ML dēsinentia, equiv. to L dēsinent- (s. of dēsinēns), prp. of dēsinere to put down, leave (dē-de-+ sinere to leave) + -ia-ia; see -ence
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