Geminate

adj, noun, verb

adj, noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A doubled or repeated letter or speech sound.

    "The attested forms show variation in the unstressed vowels (Srd. lèppere, lèpporo, lèppore, léppuri etc.) but agree on the labial geminate. We can thus reconstruct *leppVr-."

  2. 2
    a doubled or long consonant wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To arrange in pairs.
  2. 2
    arrange or combine in pairs wordnet
  3. 3
    To occur in pairs.
  4. 4
    arrange in pairs wordnet
  5. 5
    occur in pairs wordnet
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  1. 6
    form by reduplication wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Forming a pair. not-comparable

    "Near-synonyms: paired, doubled, twinned"

  2. 2
    Pronounced longer and considered as being doubled. not-comparable

    "For example, Martin (2007) notes that compounds in several languages (including English and Turkish) violate the general phonological principles in the language (e.g., English only allows geminate consonants in compounds)."

Synonyms

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reduplicateambidextrousbifacialbifoldbiformbilateral

Example

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"I think it might be useful if you could add how to output the diphthongs (with small ya/yu/yo) and geminate consonants (with small tsu)."

Etymology

First attested in 1589; borrowed from Latin geminātus, perfect passive participle of geminō (“to double”), see -ate (etymology 1,2 and 3).

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