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synonyms for affricate

  • click
  • consonant
  • diphthong
  • fricative
  • implosive
  • liquid
  • phone
  • phonetic entity
  • phonetic unit
  • plosive
  • sibilant
  • sonant
  • spirant
  • syllable
  • vocable
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How to use affricate in a sentence

The affricate in words like gaol is of French origin (gele), from a Late Lat.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 11, SLICE 4VARIOUS
Here, the j is to be pronounced as a double letter (technically an affricate) as in English.
THE COMIC LATIN GRAMMARPERCIVAL LEIGH
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO AFFRICATE

  • affricate
  • click
  • consonant
  • diphthong
  • fricative
  • implosive
  • liquid
  • phone
  • phonetic entity
  • phonetic unit
  • plosive
  • sibilant
  • sonant
  • spirant
  • syllable
  • vocable
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.