"clitic" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈklɪtɪk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-clitic.wav Forms: clitics [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪtɪk Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλιτικός (klitikós, “inflexional”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|grc|κλιτικός||inflexional}} Ancient Greek κλιτικός (klitikós, “inflexional”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} clitic (plural clitics)
  1. (linguistics) A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word). Categories (topical): Linguistics Hyponyms: enclitic [linguistics, human-sciences, sciences], endoclitic [linguistics, human-sciences, sciences], mesoclitic [linguistics, human-sciences, sciences], proclitic [linguistics, human-sciences, sciences] Derived forms: autoclitic, clitichood, cliticization, cliticize, heteroclitic, oikoclitic, postclitic, proclitic, xenoclitic Related terms: enclisis, endoclisis, mesoclisis, proclisis Coordinate_terms: affix Translations (morpheme attached to another word): клі́тыка (klítyka) [feminine] (Belarusian), stagadenn [feminine] (Breton), кли́тика (klítika) [feminine] (Bulgarian), clític [masculine] (Catalan), 附著詞素 (Chinese Mandarin), 附着词素 (fùzhuó císù) (Chinese Mandarin), příklonka [feminine] (Czech), klitikon [neuter] (Danish), cliticum [neuter] (Dutch), kliitik (Estonian), liidik (Estonian), liidepartikkel (Estonian), liitepartikkeli (Finnish), clitique [masculine] (French), კლიტიკა (ḳliṭiḳa) (Georgian), Klitikon [neuter] (German), εγκλιτικό (egklitikó) [neuter] (Greek), נתמך (nitmákh) [masculine] (Hebrew), simulószó (Hungarian), klitikum (Hungarian), függőszó (Hungarian), sníkill [masculine] (Icelandic), klitik (Indonesian), واژِهبَسْت (vâže-bast) (Iranian Persian), clitico [masculine] (Italian), 接語 (setsugo) (alt: せつご) (Japanese), 접어 (jeobeo) (alt: 接語) (Korean), клитика (klitika) [feminine] (Macedonian), klitikon [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), klitikon [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), klityka [feminine] (Polish), clítico [masculine] (Portuguese), clitic [neuter] (Romanian), кли́тика (klítika) [feminine] (Russian), клѝтика [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), klìtika [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), príklonka [feminine] (Slovak), breznaglasnica [feminine] (Slovene), naslonka [feminine] (Slovene), klitika [feminine] (Slovene), clítico [masculine] (Spanish), klitikon [neuter] (Swedish), ingklitik (Turkish), клі́тика (klítyka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), gogwyddair [masculine] (Welsh)

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1997, Raffaella Zanuttini, Negation and Clausal Structure, Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax, page 29",
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          "tags": [
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fùzhuó císù",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
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          "code": "cs",
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          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
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          "tags": [
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          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "cliticum"
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          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
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          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
          "word": "liidik"
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        {
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
          "word": "liidepartikkel"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
          "word": "liitepartikkeli"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "clitique"
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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "ḳliṭiḳa",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
          "word": "კლიტიკა"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "Klitikon"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "egklitikó",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "εγκλιτικό"
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        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "nitmákh",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "נתמך"
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        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
          "word": "simulószó"
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        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
          "word": "klitikum"
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        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
          "word": "függőszó"
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          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
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          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
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          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
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          "code": "fa-ira",
          "lang": "Iranian Persian",
          "roman": "vâže-bast",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
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          "word": "klityka"
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          "word": "clítico"
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          "word": "clítico"
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          "lang": "Swedish",
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
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          "roman": "klítyka",
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      "word": "cliticize"
    },
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      "word": "heteroclitic"
    },
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      "word": "oikoclitic"
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      "word": "postclitic"
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        "4": "",
        "5": "inflexional"
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      "expansion": "Ancient Greek κλιτικός (klitikós, “inflexional”)",
      "name": "der"
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      "word": "enclisis"
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      "word": "endoclisis"
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        "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
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        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
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        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Welsh translations",
        "en:Linguistics"
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        {
          "ref": "1997, Raffaella Zanuttini, Negation and Clausal Structure, Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax, page 29",
          "text": "In fact, even within the northern Italian dialects, subject clitics do not constitute a syntactically uniform class, as has been convincingly argued in Poletto's work."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Olga Mišeska Tomić, Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features, page 242:",
          "text": "In Macedonian, clitic-doubling is a fully-fledged phenomenon. The Macedonian Dat and Acc pronominal clitics, which originate in agreement phrases and move to preverbal position,¹⁰ where they cluster with other clausal clitics, are on their way to becoming mere case markers, which formally distinguish direct and indirect objects from subjects.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Philippe Prévost, The Acquisition of French, Language Acquisition and Language Disorders: 51, page 196",
          "text": "Here, we will see that they also have problems with overt pronouns, especially object clitics, whose emergence is more delayed than in typically developing children."
        }
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        "(linguistics) A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word)."
      ],
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        "human-sciences",
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        "sciences"
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      "ipa": "/ˈklɪtɪk/"
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      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "klítyka",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
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      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "stagadenn"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "klítika",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кли́тика"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "clític"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "word": "附著詞素"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fùzhuó císù",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "word": "附着词素"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "příklonka"
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    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "klitikon"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "cliticum"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "word": "kliitik"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "word": "liidik"
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      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "word": "liidepartikkel"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "word": "liitepartikkeli"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "clitique"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ḳliṭiḳa",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "word": "კლიტიკა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Klitikon"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "egklitikó",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "εγκλιτικό"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "nitmákh",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "נתמך"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "word": "simulószó"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "word": "klitikum"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "word": "függőszó"
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    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sníkill"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "word": "klitik"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "clitico"
    },
    {
      "alt": "せつご",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "setsugo",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "word": "接語"
    },
    {
      "alt": "接語",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jeobeo",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "word": "접어"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "klitika",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "клитика"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "klitikon"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "klitikon"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa-ira",
      "lang": "Iranian Persian",
      "roman": "vâže-bast",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "word": "واژِهبَسْت"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "klityka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "clítico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "clitic"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "klítika",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кли́тика"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "клѝтика"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "klìtika"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "príklonka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "breznaglasnica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "naslonka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "klitika"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "clítico"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "klitikon"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "word": "ingklitik"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "klítyka",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "клі́тика"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "morpheme attached to another word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gogwyddair"
    }
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  "word": "clitic"
}

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