geminate
- noun
- /ˈdʒɛmɪneɪt/
- Specialized
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geminada
- The geminate/vale alliances made up a huge proportion of NC fleets at the time.
Examples
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In some languages, a geminate consonant can change the meaning of a word, such as in Italian where 'papa' and 'ppapa' mean different things.
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Geminate says:
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The second round of spirantization eliminated those short counterparts of the intervocalic geminate stops by making them spirants.
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Reanalysis of the rare voiced geminates was, by contrast, anything but clear-cut.
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To understand how a Latin voiced geminate could have produced a simple voiceless stop, we must briefly review the chronology of Romance lenition in the Iberian Peninsula.
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When pronouncing the word 'batter', the geminate 'tt' is held longer than a regular 't'.
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The spelling 'letter' features a geminate 't', which indicates that the consonant is pronounced for a longer duration.
Synonyms
Pronouncing a consonant sound for longer or writing the letter twice to show a long sound
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
Geminate comes from the Latin word geminus, which means 'twin'. So a geminate consonant is like a 'twin' sound or a doubled letter—two of the same consonant said or written together.