déclive

See also: declive and déclivé

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin declivis.[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

déclive (plural déclives)

  1. declivous, sloping[2]
  2. (surgical) dependent[3]

Noun

déclive f (plural déclives)

  1. slope
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Verb

déclive

  1. first/third-person singular present indicative of décliver
  2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of décliver
  3. second-person singular imperative of décliver

References

  1. ^ “déclive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  2. ^ [1].
  3. ^ [2].

Further reading

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