geminate – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
geminate
adj.
paired; doubled
v.
double; arrange in pairs
Gemination
In
phonetics,
gemination or
consonant elongation happens when a spoken
consonant is pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than a short
consonant. Gemination is distinct from
stress and may appear independently of it. Gemination literally means "twinning", and is from the same Latin root as "
Gemini".
geminate
Noun
1. a doubled or long consonant; "the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate"
(hypernym) consonant
Verb
1. form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word"
(synonym) reduplicate
(hypernym) duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate
(classification) linguistics
2. occur in pairs
(synonym) pair
(hypernym) occur
(verb-group) pair
3. arrange in pairs; "Pair these numbers"
(synonym) pair
(hypernym) arrange, set up
(verb-group) pair
4. arrange or combine in pairs; "The consonants are geminated in these words"
(hypernym) double, duplicate
(derivation) gemination
geminare
v.
geminate, double
geminato
adj.
geminate, paired, doubled
Geminate
(v. t.)
To double.
(a.)
In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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