FEMININE ENDING


Meaning of FEMININE ENDING in English

1. Pros. an unaccented syllable at the close of a line of poetry, often one that is added to the metrical pattern as an extra syllable.

2. Gram. a termination or final syllable marking a feminine word: In Latin -a is a feminine ending for the ablative case in the singular.

[ 1890-95 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .