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Definitions for proclitic
proʊˈklɪt ɪkpro·clitic
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procliticnoun
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 (wa-), always attach as a prefix to the following word.
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proclitic
In morphology and syntax, a clitic (, backformed from Greek ἐγκλιτικός enklitikós "leaning" or "enclitic") is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase. In this sense, it is syntactically independent but phonologically dependent—always attached to a host. A clitic is pronounced like an affix, but plays a syntactic role at the phrase level. In other words, clitics have the form of affixes, but the distribution of function words. For example, the contracted forms of the auxiliary verbs in I'm and we've are clitics. Clitics can belong to any grammatical category, although they are commonly pronouns, determiners, or adpositions. Note that orthography is not always a good guide for distinguishing clitics from affixes: clitics may be written as separate words, but sometimes they are joined to the word they depend on (like the Latin clitic -que, meaning "and") or separated by special characters such as hyphens or apostrophes (like the English clitic 's in "it's" for "it has" or "it is").
Webster Dictionary
Procliticadjective
leaning forward; -- said of certain monosyllabic words which are so closely attached to the following word as not to have a separate accent
Etymology: [Gr. to lean forward; forward + to lean or incline. Cf. Enclitic.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Proclitic
prō-klit′ik, adj. dependent in accent upon the following word.—n. a monosyllabic word which depends so much on the following word as to lose its accent. [Gr. pro, forward, klinein, lean.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of proclitic in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of proclitic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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