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Definition of Affricative
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 Affricative
1. Noun. An affricate. ¹
2. Adjective. Of, or relating to an affricate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Affricative
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affricative
Literary usage of Affricative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monsee Fragments by George Allison Hench, Augustine, Isidore, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (1890)
"In the auslaut this affricative is shortened to z : diz. ... For affricative z,
c is used four times, three times with a hook attached to it c: herein 30, ..."
2. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"No more than one consonant may stand initial or final, even the generally excepted
affricative tc being of rare or doubtful occurrence initially and missing ..."
3. Descriptions of a New Genus and Eight New Species and Subspecies of African by Ned Hollister (1917)
"Thus, p<f> is the voiceless affricative of unrounded bilabial position; ...
If the stop and following homorganic spirant do not form an affricative but ..."
4. A Middle English Reader by Oliver Farrar Emerson (1905)
"... guttural stop therefore appears, as in brig ' bridge,' lig ' lie,' big ' buy,'
meng ' mingle, disturb.' Sth. retains the voiced affricative in verbs, ..."
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