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Meaning of "proclitic" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PROCLITIC

From New Latin proclīticus, from Greek proklinein to lean forwards; formed on the model of enclitic.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PROCLITIC

proclitic  [prəʊˈklɪtɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROCLITIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Proclitic can act as a noun and an adjective.
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.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PROCLITIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Clitic

In morphology and syntax, a clitic is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase. The term is derived from the Greek for "leaning". It is pronounced like an affix, but plays a syntactic role at the phrase level. In other words, clitics have the form of affixes, but the distribution of function words. For example, the English possessive ’s is a clitic in the phrase the king of England's horse: It looks like a suffix, but its position at the end of "the king of England" rather than on "king" is like that of a separate word. Clitics can belong to any grammatical category, although they are commonly pronouns, determiners, or adpositions. Note that orthography is not always a good guide for distinguishing clitics from affixes: clitics may be written as separate words, but sometimes they are joined to the word on which they depend, or separated by special characters such as hyphens or apostrophes. The word "clitic" is often used loosely for what may be better described as an affix or word.

Definition of proclitic in the English dictionary

The first definition of proclitic in the dictionary is relating to or denoting a monosyllabic word or form having no stress or accent and pronounced as a prefix of the following word, as in English 't for it in 'twas. Other definition of proclitic is relating to or denoting a word that throws its accent onto the following word. Proclitic is also a proclitic word or form.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROCLITIC


anaclitic
ˌænəˈklɪtɪk
analytic
ˌænəˈlɪtɪk
autocatalytic
ˌɔːtəʊˌkætəˈlɪtɪk
catalytic
ˌkætəˈlɪtɪk
clitic
ˈklɪtɪk
cytolytic
ˌsaɪtəˈlɪtɪk
electrolytic
ɪˌlɛktrəʊˈlɪtɪk
enclitic
ɪnˈklɪtɪk
fibrinolytic
ˌfaɪbrɪnəʊˈlɪtɪk
glycolytic
ˌɡlaɪkəʊˈlɪtɪk
hemolytic
ˌhiːməʊˈlɪtɪk
heteroclitic
ˌhɛtərəˈklɪtɪk
hydrolytic
ˌhaɪdrəˈlɪtɪk
lytic
ˈlɪtɪk
pearlitic
pɜːˈlɪtɪk
politic
ˈpɒlɪtɪk
proteolytic
ˌprəʊtɪəˈlɪtɪk
psychoanalytic
ˌsaɪkəʊænəˈlɪtɪk
pyrolytic
ˌpaɪrəʊˈlɪtɪk
thrombolytic
ˌθrɒmbəˈlɪtɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROCLITIC

procidence
procident
procinct
proclaim
proclaim from the housetops
proclaimant
proclaimer
proclamation
proclamatory
proclisis
proclive
proclivities
proclivity
Proclus
Procne
procoelous
proconsul
proconsular
proconsulate
proconsulship

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROCLITIC

aerolitic
batholitic
body politic
chrysolitic
critic
encephalitic
Glagolitic
impolitic
marlitic
oolitic
ophiolitic
pelitic
rhyolitic
spherulitic
staurolitic
stromatolitic
syphilitic
the body politic
theodolitic
zeolitic
zoolitic

Synonyms and antonyms of proclitic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «proclitic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROCLITIC

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

Translator English - Chinese

接的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

proclítico
570 millions of speakers

English

proclitic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

proclitic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

proclitic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

proclitic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

proclítico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

proclitic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

proclitique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Proclitic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

proclitic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

後接語
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

proclitic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Proclitic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

để áp vận
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

proclitic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रललक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sonraki kelime ile söylenen sözcük
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

proclitico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

proclitic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

proclitic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

proclitic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

proclitic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

proclitic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

proclitic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

proclitic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of proclitic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROCLITIC»

The term «proclitic» is used very little and occupies the 173.846 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROCLITIC» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROCLITIC»

Discover the use of proclitic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to proclitic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Studies on the Phonological Word
(34) a proclitic+(host) ω b (proclitic+host)ω My analysis shows that German is identical to English (see Selkirk 1995) and Dutch (see Booij 1995) — two languages in which proclitic+host sequences are parsed as in (34a). A more complete ...
T. Alan Hall, Ursula Kleinhenz, 1999
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Anglo-Saxon England
[Note that Kendall categorizes infinitives as sentence particles, unlike Kuhn] c) a proclitic occurs in the first dip of the a-verse. If the first dip is before the second stressed element, there is double alliteration: cl) where the proclitic is a prefix ( e.g. ...
Malcolm Godden, Simon Keynes, 2007
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Clitics in the Languages of Europe
The third parameter, PHONOLOGICAL LIAISON, states that a clitic can be phonologically dependent on the preceding constituent (enclitic) or on the following consituent (proclitic). This distinction is independent of the above syntactic ...
Henk C. van Riemsdijk, 1999
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The Aesthetics of Grammar: Sound and Meaning in the ...
(optional, proclitic, unstressed) yeeˀ the pronoun 'I' (free-standing, stressed) yeh the pronoun 'I' (free-standing, unstressed, phrase-final clitic form of yeeˀ) yi- the pronoun 'I' (contrastive, proclitic, unstressed form of yeeˀ) yi- the nominative ...
Jeffrey P. Williams, 2013
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Case in Semitic: Roles, Relations, and Reconstruction
The structure thus has a sense of immediacy and concreteness that other structures, such as proclitic ones ('behold, Zayd is leaving'), do not have. Proclitic structures are not bound to any time. It is proclitic structures that can have a wide range ...
Rebecca Hasselbach, 2013
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The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf
In the absence of a natural stressed element to its left, a proclitic adjective becomes a stressed element when the stressed syllable of its base word occupies an X-position which does not permit primary alliteration. Once insertion takes place ...
Calvin B. Kendall, 1991
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Studies in Arabic Syntax and Semantics
homogeneous, being determined by the deictic-concrete nature of the presen- tatives in their nuclei, while the proclitic structures are characterized by a diversity of meanings.109 It will be understood from the approach underlying this chapter  ...
Ariel A. Bloch, 1991
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Morphology and Its Interfaces
Luís (2004) and Luís and Spencer (2005) have shown that cliticizaton in EP constitutes an inflectional phenomenon, despite the syntactic conditioning of proclitic placement and the syntactic transparency of the proclitic-verb sequence.
Alexandra Galani, Glyn Hicks, George Tsoulas, 2011
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Intonation Systems: A Survey of Twenty Languages
An example of one speaker's intonation pattern of the proclitic - enclitic structure is displayed in figure 4. The proclitic sentence carries four stresses and the enclitic one five stresses, dividing the utterances into four and five stress groups,  ...
Daniel Hirst, Albert Di Cristo, 1998
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Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: ...
Proclitics are classified into four categories depending on the potential position within a compound proclitic. The combination of these proclitics is governed by two types of constraints: • Order relationship: Each proclitic is inconsistent, in a strict ...
Alexander Gelbukh, 2010

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROCLITIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term proclitic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Why This Young Girl Is a Masterful Storyteller in Sign Language
'Tis and 10 other fun proclitic words · 'You and I' vs. 'You and me'. Arika Okrent holds a Ph.D. in linguistics and a first-level certification in ... «Slate Magazine, Jan 14»
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'Tis and 10 other fun proclitic words
Most proclitic words are now archaic or obsolete, but every December the neglected proclitics get their revenge, as a holiday avalanche of "'tis" ... «The Week Magazine, Dec 13»
3
Gender sensitivity
I realise that the term proclitic in this heading is not quite correct, but I nevertheless use it to distinguish between the enclitic man attached to the ... «Malaysia Star, Jul 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Proclitic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/proclitic>. May 2024 ».
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