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PRONUNCIATION OF ENCLISIS

enclisis  [ɪnˈkliːsɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENCLISIS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Enclisis is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ENCLISIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of enclisis in the English dictionary

The definition of enclisis in the dictionary is the state of being enclitic.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENCLISIS


anamnesis
ˌænæmˈniːsɪs
anthesis
ænˈθiːsɪs
arthrodesis
ˌɑːθrəʊˈdiːsɪs
cytokinesis
ˌsaɪtəʊkɪˈniːsɪs
electrophoresis
ɪˌlɛktrəʊfəˈriːsɪs
enuresis
ˌɛnjʊˈriːsɪs
epiclesis
ˌɛpɪˈkliːsɪs
erythropoiesis
ɪˌrɪθrəʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs
exegesis
ˌɛksɪˈdʒiːsɪs
hematopoiesis
ˌhemətəʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs
hysteresis
ˌhɪstəˈriːsɪs
iontophoresis
aɪˌɒntəʊfəˈriːsɪs
kinesis
kɪˈniːsɪs
mimesis
mɪˈmiːsɪs
phylesis
faɪˈliːsɪs
psychokinesis
ˌsaɪkəʊkɪˈniːsɪs
pyrokinesis
ˌpaɪrəʊkɪˈniːsɪs
schindylesis
ˌskɪndɪˈliːsɪs
telekinesis
ˌtɛlɪkɪˈniːsɪs
thesis
ˈθiːsɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENCLISIS

encipherment
encircle
encirclement
encircling
Encke
encl.
enclasp
enclave
enclitic
enclitically
encloister
enclosable
enclose
enclosed
enclosed order
encloser
enclosure
enclosure wall
enclothe
encloud

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENCLISIS

anaclisis
anagnorisis
chorisis
crisis
debt crisis
eccrisis
energy crisis
epicrisis
Gulf Crisis
identity crisis
merisis
midlife crisis
noncrisis
phthisis
precrisis
proclisis
quarterlife crisis
rachischisis

Synonyms and antonyms of enclisis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «enclisis» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENCLISIS

Find out the translation of enclisis to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of enclisis from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «enclisis» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

enclisis
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

enclisis
570 millions of speakers

English

enclisis
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

enclisis
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

enclisis
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

enclisis
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ênclise
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

enclisis
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

enclisis
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ensiklopedia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

enclisis
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

enclisis
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

enclisis
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Encinsi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

enclisis
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

enclisis
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एक्लेसीस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

enclisis
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

enclisis
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

enclisis
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

enclisis
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

enclisis
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

enclisis
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

enclisis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

enclisis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

enclisis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of enclisis

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENCLISIS»

The term «enclisis» is barely ever used and occupies the 193.777 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ENCLISIS» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENCLISIS»

Discover the use of enclisis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to enclisis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Clitics in Greek: A Minimalist Account of Proclisis and Enclisis
Also, the syntax of strong pronouns and their relation to clitics, of negated imperatives, of surrogate imperatives and of free clitic ordering in Greek enclisis are also discussed.
Marios Mavrogiorgos, 2010
2
Linguistic Perspectives on the Romance Languages: Selected ...
The domain for enclisis and proclisis in all the environments listed in (2) can now be identified as the PW. In this section, we have argued that the domain for proclisis and enclisis in the environments in (2) above cannot be Nespor and Vogel's ...
William J. Ashby, 1993
3
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003: Selected ...
While it is true that all V2 and V3 constructions with enclisis become more frequent in texts post- 18th century, it is important to notice that this elevation in frequency affects subjects in a singular way, as opposed to the constructions PP- Vcl and ...
Twan Geerts, Ivo van Ginneken, Haike Jacobs, 2005
4
Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics: Negation, ...
There is a particular fact that deserves some reflection here: Generalization on Enclisis (Part 4): Enclisis is never found in dependent clauses with overt complementizers.25 This is not an immediate consequence of what we have argued so far; ...
Raffaella Zanuttini, 2010
5
The Structure of CP and IP : The Cartography of Syntactic ...
The relation of proclisis to enclisis Imperatives aside, pronominal clitics in Catalan, Spanish, and Italian (CASPIT) are realized as proclitics on finite verbs and as enclitics on nonfinite ones. From a descriptive perspective, the factor determining ...
Luigi Rizzi Professor of Linguistics University of Siena, 2004
6
The Grammatical Structures of English and Spanish
In Spanish, enclisis is used extensively (all with-verb pronouns appear as enclitic forms dependent on verbs), but compounding is relatively rare. In English there is practically no enclisis, but compounding is extremely frequent. Enclisis is a ...
Robert P. Stockwell, 1965
7
Current Studies in Spanish Linguistics
Affirmative command forms, regardless of left context and irrespective of whether they are imperatives proper or subjunctives, require enclisis in Modern Spanish, while the negative commands, all of subjunctive form, require proclisis.
Héctor Campos, Fernando Martínez-Gil, 1992
8
The Development of Romance Clitic Pronouns: From Latin to ...
TM I. Enclisis is obligatory for a clitic pronoun attached to a sentence initial verb ( Mussafia l886:255—258; Sorrento l951:l43; Ulleland 1960:53-54). (1) [5 EL V X ——> [S V—gl X obligatory For Ramsden (l963:l00-102) this case is category XIII  ...
Dieter Wanner, 1987
9
Minimalist Inquiries Into Child and Adult Language ...
intermediate (Int.) and advanced (Adv.) levels The spontaneous production data for the Romance group show evidence that: (a) enclisis in the relevant contexts appears to be well established from the early stages, decreasing slightly in the ...
Acrisio Pires, Jason Rothman, 2009
10
Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History
An anonymous reviewer notes that the analysis proposed in this paper derives in different ways Old Portuguese and Modern Portuguese enclisis (in finite clauses). I think this is a welcome result because Old Portuguese enclisis and Modern ...
Kurt Braunmüller, Gisella Ferraresi, 2003

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Enclisis [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/enclisis>. Apr 2024 ».
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