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PRONUNCIATION OF DESINENTIAL

desinential  [ˌdesɪˈnenʃəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DESINENTIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Desinential is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DESINENTIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of desinential in the English dictionary

The definition of desinential in the dictionary is of or relating to an ending or termination, esp an inflectional ending of a word.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DESINENTIAL


confidential
ˌkɒnfɪˈdɛnʃəl
consequential
ˌkɒnsɪˈkwɛnʃəl
differential
ˌdɪfəˈrɛnʃəl
essential
ɪˈsɛnʃəl
experiential
ɪkˌspɪərɪˈɛnʃəl
exponential
ˌɛkspəʊˈnɛnʃəl
financial
fɪˈnænʃəl
influential
ˌɪnflʊˈɛnʃəl
intelligential
ɪnˌtelɪˈdʒenʃəl
jurisprudential
ˌdʒʊərɪspruːˈdenʃəl
nonexistential
ˌnɒnˌeɡzɪˈstenʃəl
potential
pəˈtɛnʃəl
prepresidential
ˌpriːprezɪˈdenʃəl
presidential
ˌprezɪˈdenʃəl
provincial
prəˈvɪnʃəl
prudential
pruːˈdɛnʃəl
residential
ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl
sequential
sɪˈkwɛnʃəl
subsequential
ˌsʌbsɪˈkwenʃəl
substantial
səbˈstænʃəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DESINENTIAL

designingly
designless
designment
desilver
desilverisation
desilverise
desilverization
desilverize
desinence
desinent
desipience
desipient
desipramine
desirability
desirable
desirableness
desirably
desire
desired
desireless

WORDS THAT END LIKE DESINENTIAL

action potential
chemical potential
circumferential
circumstantial
credential
equipotential
existential
growth potential
inconsequential
inferential
initial
penitential
precedential
quintessential
referential
reverential
self-referential
tangential
torrential
unsubstantial
vice-presidential

Synonyms and antonyms of desinential in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «desinential» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DESINENTIAL

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Translator English - Chinese

desinential
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desinential
570 millions of speakers

English

desinential
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

desinential
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

desinential
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

desinential
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desinential
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

desinential
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

desinential
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Desinential
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

desinential
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

desinential
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

desinential
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Desinential
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

desinential
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

desinential
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Desinential
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

desinential
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

desinential
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

desinential
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

desinential
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

desinential
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

desinential
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

desinential
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

desinential
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

desinential
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of desinential

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DESINENTIAL»

The term «desinential» is normally little used and occupies the 145.957 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DESINENTIAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about desinential

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESINENTIAL»

Discover the use of desinential in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to desinential and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Balto-Slavic Accentual Mobility
... on a non-desinential syllable; if the pre-desinential syllable is accented, it has acute tone. 2 Accent on a short or circumflex pre-desinential syllable alternating with desinential accentuation; pre-desinential accentuation in the dative plural.
Thomas Olander, 2009
2
Perspectives on Tenth Century Arabic Grammar Al-Zajjaji's ...
Chapter 2 Desinential Inflection1 Nouns desinentially inflect in the raf 'nominative ,' nasb 'accusative,' and xafd 'genitive' cases; the jazm 'jussive' does not occur in nouns. Verbs3 desinentially inflect in the raf 'indicative,' nasb 'subjunctive,' ...
Hana Zabarah, 2005
3
Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis
It is of interest to note not only that, in the contemporary language, desinential h of the first person singular is morphologically unconnected with the same segment of the first person singular and the third person plural, although it is connected ...
Ellen Contini-Morava, Robert S. Kirsner, Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller, 2004
4
Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 1: Past and Present
(7) Examples without prefixes (where -i- is the marker of the verbal stem-type): a. brod -i -u (root back vowel > desinential back vowel) wander -SM —3SG 'he/ she wanders' b. sluav -i -da (root back vowel > desinential back vowel) praise -SM ...
Östen Dahl, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, 2001
5
The Word in Arabic
A second restriction, i.e. the incidence of desinential inflection, allows him then to exclude from the category of kalima the bound morphemes belonging to the concatenative morphology. However, in his commentary to the sentence “the ...
Giuliano Lancioni, Lidia Bettini, 2011
6
The Circum-Baltic Languages: Typology and Contact
-u (root back vowel > desinential back vowel) -3SG -da (root back vowel > desinential back vowel) -INF -ti (root front vowel > desinential front vowel) -3SG d. sluuz -i -mah (root back vowel > desinential back vowel) serve -SM -INF 'to serve' e.
Östen Dahl, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, 2001
7
Studies in Romance Linguistics: Selected Proceedings from ...
Maegan? 6.3 Desinential agreement in impersonal constructions Perhaps the strongest independent evidence one could adduce in support of the inflectional theory of clitics presented in this paper is the acquisition in the Romance languages ...
Carl Kirschner, Janet Ann DeCesaris, 1989
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Hua: A Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea
The two patterns are reminiscent of the Hua conjugation types: Subjunctive ablaut Desinential ablaut l. u o 2. i a 3. (suppletion) i l. u u 2/3. 1 a l. u u 2/3. i a The subjunctive ablaut alternation system is similar to that found in Hua i-stem verbs, ...
John Haiman, 1980
9
Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected ...
This indicates that the high front theme vowel (-/) generalizes mid-vowel height before any unstressed desinential vowel, regardless of whether it is in word-final position, but that the high and low non-front theme vowels (-a, -/) do not undergo  ...
Julie Auger, J. Clancy Clements, Barbara Vance, 2004
10
The Jewels of the Qur'an
From this shell branch off five sciences which are the sciences of the rind, the shell and the garment [of the Qur'an], Thus from the words of the Qur'an, stemmed off the science of Arabic language; from the desinential syntax of the words, ...
Imam al-Ghazali

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