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Proclitic
Pro-clit′ic
,Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK] to lean forward; [GREEK] forward + [GREEK] to lean or incline. Cf.
Enclitic
.] (Gr. Gram.)
Leaning forward; – said of certain monosyllabic words which are so closely attached to the following word as not to have a separate accent.
Definition 2024
proclitic
proclitic
English
Noun
proclitic (plural proclitics)
- (linguistics) A clitic which phonetically joins with the following word. In English, the dialectal form t' is an example. In Arabic, conjunctions and prepositions that have only one letter, such as وَ (wa-), always attach as a prefix to the following word.
Translations
clitic which joins the following word