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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | reduplicate |
| Type of | double, reduplicate, repeat, replicate, duplicate |
Examples of geminate
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Italian has geminate, or double, consonants, which are distinguished by length.
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Unlike most other Western Romance languages, Catalan has phonemic geminate consonants.
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In a geminate or long consonant, the occlusion lasts longer than in simple consonants.
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A word ending in a geminate stop must compulsorily add the predictable vowel at the end.
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Usually a trill vibrates for 2-3 periods, but may be up to 5, or even more if geminate.
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Italian has geminate, or double, consonants, which are distinguished by length and intensity.
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Words do not normally end in a geminate stop except in some adjectives ending in a consonant.
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Geminate plosives and affricates are realised as lengthened closures.
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Geminate consonants are phonemically contrastive in Biblical Hebrew.
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- Reduplicate: form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word"
- A doubled or long consonant; "the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate"
- Pair: occur in pairs
- Arrange or combine in pairs; "The consonants are geminated in these words"
- (gemination) the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect)
- (Geminates) In phonetics, gemination happens when a spoken consonant is pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than a short consonant.
- (Gemination (dentistry)) The phenomenon of gemination arises when two teeth develop from one tooth bud and, as a result, the patient has an extra tooth, in contrast to fusion, where the patient would appear to be missing one tooth. ...
- (geminated) Lengthened (said of consonants), or doubled. Geminated consonants are unknown in English, but appear in many other languages, like Italian (written as double consonants: pizza, otto, Massimo, doppo).
- (Gemination) A single tooth bud that divides and forms two teeth.
