inflectional

inflectional
/in flek"sheuh nl/, adj.
1. of, pertaining to, or used in inflection: an inflectional ending.
2. Ling. pertaining to or noting a language, as Latin, characterized by the use of inflection, esp. morphemic fusion or irregular morphophonemic alternation. Cf. agglutinative (def. 2), isolating.
[1825-35; INFLECTION + -AL1]

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