accidence

[ ak-si-duhns ]
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noun
  1. the rudiments or essentials of a subject.

  2. Grammar.

    • the study of inflection as a grammatical device.

    • the inflections so studied.

Origin of accidence

1
1500–1510; <Latin accidentia, neuter plural of accidēns (present participle of accidere to fall, befall). See accident

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accidence

/ (ˈæksɪdəns) /


noun
  1. inflectional morphology; the part of grammar concerned with changes in the form of words by internal modification or by affixation, for the expression of tense, person, case, number, etc

Origin of accidence

1
C15: from Latin accidentia accidental matters, hence inflections of words, from accidere to happen. See accident

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