A falling off, decay or descent. / (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.

plural of declension

(grammar, rare) To decline (to inflect for case and number).

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declense

present participle of declense

simple past tense and past participle of declense

(linguistics) A class of words in many Germanic languages including English, which decline irregularly rather than by suffixation (for example goose, whose plural is geese).

plural of strong declension

(grammar) The declension pattern of a weak noun.

In Latin, a pattern of inflection of a group of nouns that are declined (inflected) in the same way, and which have an -a- in their stems.