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Note:  Do not rely on this information. It is very old.

Declension

Declension (Latin declensio, falling off), in grammar, the series of modifications of the fundamental meaning of any noun by case-endings expressive of relation. The Greek grammarians treated the nominative as expressing the pure meaning of the word, and the other cases as "fallings off," inasmuch as they express not only the pure meaning but certain relations as well.