Athematic


inflected without a vowel.
Historical Examples

In the verb the athematic conjugation has disappeared and the distinction of primary and secondary endings is not observed.
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adjective
(music) not based on themes
(linguistics) (of verbs) having a suffix attached immediately to the stem, without an intervening vowel

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