rhotic

adj
/ˈɹəʊ.tɪk/UK/ˈɹoʊ.tɪk/US/ˈr(h)o.ʈɪk/

Etymology

Etymology tree English rhotacismbf. English rhotic Back-formation from rhotacism, coined in 1968 by John C. Wells.

  1. derived from rhotacismbf

Definitions

  1. That allows the phoneme /ɹ/ even when not followed by a vowel, as in bar (/bɑːɹ/) and…

    That allows the phoneme /ɹ/ even when not followed by a vowel, as in bar (/bɑːɹ/) and bard or barred (/bɑːɹd/); (of an English speaker) who speaks with such an accent.

    • Rhotic speech is common in Ireland, Scotland, much of the United States, Canada, West Country England, and many parts of the north and west of England.
  2. Having a sound quality associated with the letter R

    Having a sound quality associated with the letter R; having the sound of any of certain IPA symbols, including /ɹ/, /ɻ/, /ɚ/, /ɝ/ and /r/.

    • Near-synonym: retroflex
    • What is normally understood by the term "trill" is a rhotic consonant of the type seen in the Spanish word perro 'dog', or the usual pronunciation of the phoneme /r/ in Parisian French.
  3. A rhotic consonant or rhotic vowel (R-coloured vowel).

    • Phonetic transcription of rhotics differs depending on whether the rhotic is a steady-state or dynamic vowel.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rhotic. 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