Definitions For Clitic
Noun
{{examples, we’ve (enclitic)I’d’ve (enclitic)d’you (proclitic)’tisn’t}} CLITIC (plural CLITICs) (linguistics) A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word).
Hyponyms
linguistics enclitic, endoclitic, mesoclitic, procliticCoordinate terms
affixDerived terms
heteroclitic postclitic procliticEtymology
From "inflexional".Related terms
enclisis endoclisis mesoclisis proclisisTranslations
Catalan: clític, m Chinese: : Mandarin: 附著詞素, sc=Hani}}, {{t, cmn, 附着词素 (fúzhuò císù, sc=Hani) Czech: příklonka, f Danish: klitikon, n Dutch: cliticum, n Finnish: liitepartikkeli French: clitique, m Georgian: {{t-needed, ka}} German: Klitikon, n Hebrew: {{t-needed, he}} Hungarian: simulószó, klitikum Icelandic: sníkill, m Japanese: 接語 (せつご, setsugo) Mongolian: {{t-needed, mn}} Norwegian: : Bokmål: klitikon, n : Nynorsk: klitikon, n Polish: klityka, f Portuguese: clítico, m Russian: кли́тика, f Serbo-Croatian: klìtika, f Spanish: clítico, m Swedish: klitikon, nIs Clitic a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
YES
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
13
The word Clitic is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends