declinable
adjUK /dɪˈklaɪnəbəɫ/
Etymology From decline + -able.
1
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Capable of being declined; of a word, having inflections.
- It is obvious that the system in present-day English is radically different, and that the notion of case (i.e. a form or modification of a declinable word) is now of very little significance.1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 152:
- Antonyms
- indeclinable
- Derived terms
- declinability, indeclinable, undeclinable