Meaning

1 senses

  1. To produce (a plosive) as an affricate.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. The Hebrew letter tsadi probably didn't originally have an affricate pronunciation.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

Borrowed from Latin affricātus.

Borrowed from Latin affricātus.

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Forms

affricates, affricating, affricated, affricated
Base formaffricate · to affricate
3rd person singularaffricates
Present participleaffricating
Past simpleaffricated
Past participleaffricated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyaffricate
he, she, itaffricates

Past simpleLesson

all personsaffricated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave affricated
he, she, ithas affricated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill affricate

Word family

3 related words
Derivedaffricationaffricatizeunaffricated

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
affluentaffordB1affordableB2affrontafghanaficionado

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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