proclitic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek προκλινειν (proklinein, “to lean forward”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪtɪk

Noun

proclitic (plural proclitics)

1. (linguistics) A clitic that joins with the following word phonetically, graphically, or both.

   In dialectal or poetic English, the pronoun the or to can become a proclitic, t'.

Related terms

• clitic
• enclitic

Translations

clitic which joins with the following word

• Arabic: مُلْحَق (mulḥaq)
• Asturian: proclíticu m
• Catalan: proclític (ca) m
• Danish: proklitikon n
• Dutch: procliticum n
• French: proclitique (fr) m
• German: proklitisch (adjective), Proklitikon (de) n
• Italian: proclitico m
• Japanese: 後接語 (ja) (kōsetsugo)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: proklitikon n

  Nynorsk: proklitikon n

• Polish: proklityka f
• Russian: проклити́ческий (ru) (proklitíčeskij) (adjective), прокли́тика (ru) f (proklítika)
• Serbo-Croatian: проклитика f (proklitika)
• Sicilian: pruclìticu m
• Spanish: proclítico (es) m
• Swedish: proklitikon n
• Welsh: proclitig m, gogwyddair proclitig m

See also

• Wikipedia article on clitics

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Romanian

Etymology

From French proclitique.

Adjective

proclitic m or n (feminine singular proclitică, masculine plural proclitici, feminine and neuter plural proclitice)

1. proclitic (attributive)

Declension

Declension of proclitic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	proclitic		proclitică	proclitici	proclitice
	definite	procliticul		proclitica	procliticii	procliticele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	proclitic		proclitice	proclitici	proclitice
	definite	procliticului		procliticei	procliticilor	procliticelor