heteroclitic

English

Etymology

From hetero- ‎ clitic.

Adjective

heteroclitic (comparative more heteroclitic, superlative most heteroclitic)

1. (linguistics) Irregular in inflection.
2. (linguistics) In particular, in Indo-European studies: signifying a stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case. Examples of heteroclitic noun stems in Proto-Indo-European include *wod-r/n- "water" (nominoaccusative *wódr; genitive *udnés; locative *udén) and *yék^w-r/n- "liver" (nominoaccusative *yék^wr, genitive *ik^wnés).
3. (microbiology) Pertaining to antibodies that react to a wide variety of antigens.
   • 2011, Eric J. Toone, Advances in Enzymology and Related Areas of Molecular Biology, page 300:

     […] a heteroclitic response was never observed after the immunization with the deamidated peptide […]

Related terms

• heteroclite
• heteroclitical

Translations

irregular in inflection

• French: hétéroclite (fr)
• German: heteroklitisch (de)
• Italian: eteroclito (it)
• Latin: heteroclitus, heterocliticus
• Russian: разносклоняемый (ru) (raznosklonjajemyj)

Noun

heteroclitic (plural heteroclitics)

1. A heteroclitic noun.

Related terms

• heteroclisis
• heteroclite