Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To double.
- intransitive verb To arrange in pairs.
- intransitive verb Linguistics To make into a geminate.
- intransitive verb To occur in pairs.
- intransitive verb Linguistics To become a geminate.
- adjective Forming a pair; doubled.
- noun A long or doubled consonant sound, such as the tt in the Italian word sotto or the nn in the English word thinness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Twin; combined in pairs; binate.
- To double.
- To become double.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin.
- transitive verb rare To double.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Forming a
pair . - verb To arrange in
pairs . - verb To occur in pairs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a doubled or long consonant
- verb form by reduplication
- verb arrange in pairs
- verb occur in pairs
- verb arrange or combine in pairs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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First, it must be known that Etruscan lacks geminate consonants.
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First, it must be known that Etruscan lacks geminate consonants.
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Tropylium: "You suggested geminate glottalized creaky."
Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing 2008
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Tropylium: one of them seems to be adjacent to an ´ayin and the other, geminate, so how about this does not need to be the general medial outcome, just a conditioned one?
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Don't take it literally as a geminate consonant, as might be the interpretation of those familiar with IPA notation.
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It's important to recognize however that a preceding consonant need not geminate as the following vowel is deleted.
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If the supershort schwa is word-medial, it lengthens an accented vowel in an immediately-preceding open syllable, otherwise all supershort schwas geminate the immediately-preceding consonant instead.
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DI; the capitals denote values of syllabic signs were ignored in favour of geminate versus simple: word-initial TI or DI to write the same word, but contrasting AT-TI or AD-DI vs.
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If history has taught us anything it's that it is at that nexus where seeds of corporate fascism geminate, and if allowed to grow, thrive.
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The correlation of voice was replaced by one of intensity tense : lax, with the tense member realized with relative length, thus a tendency to an opposition geminate : simple.
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