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  • noun In grammar, a noun which has only two cases, as the Latin suppetiæ, suppetias, assistance.

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  • noun (Gram.) A noun which has only two cases.

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  • noun grammar In grammar, a noun which has only two cases. In Modern Standard Arabic, nouns belong to triptotes or diptotes, or can be indeclinable.

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  • 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