Plural of declension; multiple systems or instances of word-form changes in grammar.
Plural form of declension, from Latin declinatio. The plural form became standard when discussing multiple different declension patterns in languages.
Proto-Indo-European (the ancestor of English, Latin, Sanskrit, and German) had eight cases with multiple declensions—but as languages evolved, many lost cases entirely, which is why English just uses word order instead.
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