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Definition of Affricate
1. Noun. A composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as 'ch' in 'chair' and 'j' in 'joy').
Definition of Affricate
1. n. A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.
Definition of Affricate
1. Noun. (phonetics) A sound produced using a combination of a plosive and a fricative. English sounds /t??/ (ca''tch'') and /d??/ (''j''ury) are examples. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Affricate
1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affricate
Literary usage of Affricate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities by Edward Wheeler Scripture, Fred Newton Scott, Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, Clarence Linton Meader, Carl Schurz, Merle Harrold Thorpe, James Geddes, Calvin Milton Woodward, Orestes Pearle Rhyne, Claud Howard, Roger Wells, Otto Eduard Lessing (1907)
"When, however, the language had, besides the velar fricative j and the palatal
fricative j, the velar stop c and the dental affricate tz, ..."
2. The Language and Metre of Chaucer by Bernhard Aegidius Konrad ten Brink (1901)
"The voiced affricate dz occurs : (a) In original English words only medially.
It has developed from OE final or medial palatal media, which occurs only in ..."
3. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"No doubt conservative speech retained the affricate pronunciation longer, which
might account for the fact that so many sixteenth century grammarians sought ..."
4. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"In the combination of affricate plus t the affricate is treated like the combination
of stop plus sibilant or affricate plus sibilant, viz. the initial stop ..."
5. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"Dental, alveolar, or retroflex stop or 9 or affricate, plus sibilant. ....
In the combination of affricate plus t the affricate is treated like the ..."
6. Native Writings in Massachusett by Ives Goddard, Kathleen Joan Bragdon (1988)
"The Sounds of Massachusett Consonants Massachusett has 12 consonant phonemes,
written in the idealized orthography as follows: (stops and affricate) |p|, ..."
7. Occitan Translations of John XII and Xiii-XVII from a Fourteenth-Century by Marvyn Roy Harris (1985)
"The situation of the extension of the non-affricate versus the affricate treatment
of CT is somewhat more complex than for CA. There are two non-contiguous ..."
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