Spirant Synonyms

spīrənt
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. sibilant
  4. strident
A continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fricative
  2. fricative consonant

Spirant Sentence Examples

  • In Late Latin there was a tendency to this spirant pronunciation which appears as early as the beginning of the 2nd century A.D.; by the 3rd century b and consonantal u are inextricably confused.

  • V is therefore a voiced labio-dental spirant, the breath escaping through a very narrow slit between the lower lip and the upper teeth.

  • In modern Greek the ancient b (d) has become the voiced spirant (8), though it is still written b.

  • He thinks that the guttural element in E was a spirant, and therefore different from X, which is an aspirate.

  • The sign x was kept in the western group for the guttural spirant in E, which was written X*; but, as this spirant occurred nowhere else, the combination was often abbreviated, and X was used for X precisely as in the Italic alphabets we shall find that F =f develops out of a combination FH.

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