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ENCLITIC

Definitions: ENCLITIC

ENCLITIC

Intransitive verb

1. Alt. of Enclitical

Noun

1. A word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee).

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



Specialty Definitions: ENCLITIC

DomainDefinitions

Language

A word in an unstressed form attached to another word which carries the stress. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym by domain: enclitics (language).

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Crosswords: ENCLITIC

English words defined with "ENCLITIC": EncliticallyOrthotone. (references)
Etymologies containing "ENCLITIC": Proclitic. (references)
Non-English Usage: "ENCLITIC" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (enclitic).

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Modern Translations: ENCLITIC

Language Translations for "ENCLITIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

enklitik. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏محاط (encompassed, surrounded). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

еклитичен, енклитика. (various references)

   

Danish

  

enklitisk ord, enklitikon. (various references)

   

French

  

enclitique. (various references)

   

German

  

Enklitikum. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εγκλιτικό. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

simuló szócska, simuló (osculant, oscular, osculatory). (various references)

   

Italian

  

enclitico, enclitica. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

encliticay

   

Portuguese

  

enclave, enclítica. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

enclitic. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

энклитический (postpositive), энклитика. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

enklitika, enklitički. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

enclítico. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

önceki sözcükle birleşen kelime, önceki sözcükle birleşen. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

енклітика. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: ENCLITIC

Derivations

Words beginning with "ENCLITIC": enclitics. (additional references)


Misspellings

"ENCLITIC" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ecletic, enclectic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ENCLITIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-i-l-n-t"

-2 letters: cilice, client, clinic, clitic, elicit, icicle, incite, lectin, lentic.

-3 letters: cline, elint, ictic, inlet, licit, telic.

-4 letters: ceil, celt, cent, cine, cite, clit, etic, inti, lent, lice, lien, line, lint, lite, nice, nite, tile, tine.

-5 letters: cel, ice, lei, let, lie, lin, lit, net, nil, nit, tel, ten, tic, tie, til, tin.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-i-l-n-t"
 

+1 letter: enclitics, niccolite.

 

+2 letters: conciliate, niccolites.

 

+3 letters: calisthenic, circinately, clonicities, conciliated, conciliates, conflictive, electrician.

 

+4 letters: anticlerical, biotechnical, calisthenics, centralistic, coincidental, coincidently, conciliative, criticalness, dialectician, electricians, encephalitic, heliocentric, insecticidal, intervocalic, technicality, technicalize.

 

+5 letters: anticlericals, anticlockwise, cinematically, cliometrician, dialecticians, intercortical, intergalactic, isoelectronic, neoclassicist, occidentalize, octodecillion, recirculating, recirculation, technicalized, technicalizes, undialectical, volcanicities, vulcanicities.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ENCLITIC


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 4E 43 4C 49 54 49 43

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -.    -.-.    .-..    ..    -    ..    -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01001110 01000011 01001100 01001001 01010100 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#78 &#67 &#76 &#73 &#84 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004E 0043 004C 0049 0054 0049 0043

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3948374643544337

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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