Meaning & use
Accidence
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The part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words, such as changes in form to show tense, number, gender, or case.
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The textbook's chapter on accidence covered verb conjugations and noun declensions in Latin.
Understanding the accidence of a language is often the first step before tackling its syntax.
A note on using this word
Historically paired with 'syntax' as one of the two traditional branches of grammar; the word is unrelated to 'accident,' despite the similar spelling.
Words with a similar meaning
inflectional morphology
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