retroflex – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
retroflex
adj.
bent backwards
Retroflex consonant
A
retroflex consonant is a
coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the
alveolar ridge and the
hard palate. They are sometimes referred to as
cerebral consonants, especially in
Indology. Other terms occasionally encountered are
domal and
cacuminal.
retroflex
Verb
1. bend or turn backward
(synonym) replicate
(hypernym) bend, flex
(derivation) retroflection, retroflexion
2. articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate; "Indian accents can be characterized by the fact that speakers retroflex their consonants"
(hypernym) pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
(derivation) retroflection, retroflexion
Adjective
1. bent or curved backward
(synonym) retroflexed
(similar) backward
2. pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate
(synonym) cacuminal
(similar) backward
(classification) linguistics
Retroflex
(a.)
Alt. of Retroflexed
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
retroflex
Synonyms and related words:
accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arch, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, backslide, barytone, bend, bend back, bilabial, bow, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked, close, cock, consonant, consonantal, continuant, crook, curl, curve, decurve, deflect, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dome, dorsal, embow, epenthetic vowel, explosive, fall astern, fall behind, flat, flex, front, get behind, glide, glossal, glottal, glottalization, go backwards, go behind, guttural, hard, heavy, high, hook, hump, hunch, incurvate, incurve, inflect, intonated, jerk back, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, lapse, laryngeal, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, loop, lose ground, low, manner of articulation, mid, modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plosive, posttonic, prothetic vowel, pull back, recede, recidivate, recurve, reflect, reflex, regress, relapse, retrocede, retrograde, retrogress, return, revert, round, rounded, sag, segmental phoneme, semivowel, slip back, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound, stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, swag, sweep, syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, transition sound, triphthong, turn, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, vault, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide, wind
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
