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flectere
Latin · ancient
"to bend"
to bend, combined with in- (into)
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inflectere
Latin · ancient
"to bend in, to modulate"
to bend in, to modulate, from in- and flectere
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Stage 3 of 3
inflect
English · 1500s
"to change the pitch of one's voice, or a word's grammatical form"
settled as the English word for changing the pitch of one's voice, or a word's form
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