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- noun In grammar, a noun which has only two cases, as the Latin suppetiæ, suppetias, assistance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gram.) A noun which has only two cases.
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- noun grammar In grammar, a noun which has only two
cases . InModern Standard Arabic , nouns belong totriptotes or diptotes, or can be indeclinable.
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qroqqa commented on the word diptote
adj. having only two case-endings (Greek ptôsis "case"): normally used of Arabic nouns in which the accusative and genitive are identical.
n. diptote noun
August 14, 2008