a. [f. prec. + -IC, after Gr. πτωτικός.] Uninflected. Applied to languages that have no grammatical inflexions.
[Not in Craig, 1847.]
1849–52. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., IV. 1346/1. The Aptotic type, of which the Chinese is an example.
1858. [See ANAPTOTIC].
