ellip'sis, Gr. elleipsis, a leaving or defect: the omission of a word or words necessary to complete the grammatical structure of the sentence.
etymol'ogy, Gr. etumologia, from etumon, the true literal sense of a word, and logos, a discourse: that division of grammar which treats of the classification and grammatical forms of words.
fem'inine (gender), Lat. femininus, from femina, woman: the gender of a noun denoting a person of the female sex.
gen'der, Lat. genus, generis, kind: a grammatical form expressing the sex or non-sex of an object named by a noun.
gram'mar, Gr. gramma, a letter, through Fr. grammaire: the science of language.
imper'ative (mood), Lat. imperativus, from imperare, to command: the mood of a verb used in the statement of a command or request.
indic'ative (mood), Lat. indicativus, from indicare, to proclaim: the mood of a verb used in the statement of a fact, or of a matter taken as a fact.
inflec'tion, Lat. inflexio, from inflectere, to bend in: a change in the ending of a word.
interjec'tion, Lat. interjectio, from inter and jacere, to throw between: a word which expresses an emotion, but which does not enter into the construction of the sentence.
intran'sitive (verb), Lat. intransitivus = in, not, and transitivus, from trans and ire, itum, to go beyond: a verb that denotes a state or condition, or an action not terminating on an object.