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Definition of Assibilate
1. Verb. Insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound).
2. Verb. Change into a sibilant. "In the syllable /si/, the /s/ sibilates in Japanese"
Definition of Assibilate
1. v. t. To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant.
Definition of Assibilate
1. Verb. (linguistics phonetics) To change into or pronounce with the accompaniment of a sibilant sound or sounds. ¹
2. Verb. (linguistics phonetics) To change by assibilation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Literary usage of Assibilate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Classical Papers of Mortimer Lamson Earle by Mortimer Lamson Earle (1912)
"... derived from the first, as Professor von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff suggested) ;
I plus I and V would be the filling out of an assibilate scheme. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Before e (Lat. e, a, ce) and г the с had already begun to assibilate in Latin
itself; in O. Sp. it yielded the voiceless dental sibilant ..."
3. Old Spanish Readings: Selected on the Basis of Critically Edited Texts by Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford (1911)
"(8) Before e (ae, oe) and i the c had perhaps begun to assibilate already in the
late Latin period; in O. Sp. it became the voiceless dental sibilant ts, ..."
4. A Grammar of the Latin Language, from Plautus to Suetonius by Henry John Roby (1876)
"... that ' we ' know for certain that in the 5th century it was considered wrong 'not
to assibilate U before a vowel,' was also an African, from Mauretania, ..."
5. The New Cratylus: Or, Contributions Towards a More Accurate Knowledge of the by John William Donaldson (1859)
"It is the tendency of all languages to soften or assibilate their hard sounds.
We have plenty of instances of this even in the modern languages of Europe; ..."
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