Spirant synonyms

spī'rənt

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fricative (related)
(Phonetics) Any of several sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant. English /f/ and /s/ are fricatives.
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continuant
Continuing; prolonged; sustained.
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sibilant
Of, characterized by, or producing a hissing sound like that of (s) or (sh):
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strident
The definition of strident is something loud, harsh-sounding or shrill.
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fricative consonant
a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract
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Spirant Sentence Examples

  • This change is called the " spirant mutation."

  • When the lips are not tightly closed the sound produced is not a stop, but a spirant like the English w.

  • 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 the middle of words between vowels f was originally regularly voiced: life, lives; wife, wives, &c. The Latin V, however, was not a labio-dental spirant like the English v, but a bi-labial semivowel like the English w, as is clear from the testimony of Quintilian and of later grammarians.

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