Sibilant Synonyms

sĭbə-lənt
Of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. fricative
  2. continuant
  3. spirant
  4. strident
A consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sibilant consonant
Synonyms:
  1. hissing

Words Related to Sibilant

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. guttural
  2. plosive
  3. velar

Sibilant Sentence Examples

  • In Latin there is no evidence for the interchange of c with a sibilant earlier than the 6th century A.D.

  • In the middle of words when t precedes a palatal sound like i (y) which is not syllabic, it coalesces with it into the sound of sh as in position, nation, &c. The change to a sibilant in these cases took place in late Latin, but in Middle English the i following the t was still pronounced as a separate syllable.

  • In the Phoenician alphabet a sibilant Zade (Tzaddi) stands between q and p. Hence Q is the nineteenth letter in the Phoenician alphabet, the eighteenth in the Greek numerical alphabet, which alone contains it, the sixteenth (owing to the omission of 8 and E) in the Latin, and (from the addition of J) the seventeenth in the English alphabet.

  • In other dialects, however, it had been palatalized to a sibilant before i-sounds some time before the Christian era; e.g.

  • This demonstrates beyond a doubt the possibility of a strongly palatalized n becoming a palatal sibilant or vice versa, between which utterances there is but a very slight tongue movement.

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