Noun: conjugation
| Singular | conjugation |
| Plural | conjugations |
Sample Sentences
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In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…] [1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] , London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972:]
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Meronym: principal parts
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Nouns ending in a vowel other than a, which do not conform to any phonological pattern of noun conjugation, do not decline. [2005, Maya Arad, “The Noun-Verb Asymmetry in Hebrew: When Are Patterns Obligatory?”, in Roots and Patterns: Hebrew Morpho-syntax, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like conjugation
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin coniugātiō (“combining, connecting; conjugation”), from coniugō (“join, unite together”). Equivalent to conjugate + -ion. See: Latin Nouns '
coniugātiō'.
Verbs referencing "conjugation"
Finnish Nouns
konjugaatio, Swedish Nouns
konjugation.