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Assibilate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To change into or pronounce with the accompaniment of a sibilant sound or sounds.
  2. 2
    change into a sibilant wordnet
  3. 3
    To change by assibilation.
  4. 4
    insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound) wordnet

Etymology

From Latin assībilātus (“murmured, whispered at, hissed”), past participle of assībilō (“hiss at”, verb), from ad (“at”) + sībilō (“hiss”, verb), from sībilus (“a hissing, whistling”), of imitative origin.

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