[Middle English sedule, slip of parchment or paper, note, from Old French cedule, from Late Latin schedula, diminutive of scheda, variant of Latin scida, papyrus strip, from Greek skhida, skhedÄ; perhaps akin to skhizein, to split; see schizo-.] schedâ²uÂ·lar adj.
Grammatical inflection (sometimes known as accidence or flection in more traditional grammars) is the way in which a word is changed or altered in form in order to achieve a new, specific meaning.
An inflectional suffix is sometimes called a desinence or a grammatical suffix. Examples. English: Girls, where the suffix -s marks the plural. He makes, where suffix -s marks the third person singular present tense. It closed, where the suffix -ed marks the past tense. French: De beaux jours, where the suffix -x marks the plural.