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affricate

noun
/ˈæf.ɹɪ.kət/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- Proto-Indo-European *bʰriH-o-s Proto-Italic *frios Proto-Italic *friāō Latin friō Latin fricō Latin affricō Latin affricātusbor. English affricate From Latin affricātus.

  1. borrowed from affricātus

Definitions

  1. A single speech sound produced combining a plosive and a fricative.

  2. To produce (a plosive) as an affricate.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for affricate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA