fricative
Any of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the…Any of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.
» Dutch has at most nine fricatives.
Meaning
1 sensesAny of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.
Frikativ, Reibelaut
фрикати́вныйfrikatívnyj, щелево́йščelevój
- a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract
Examples
4 sentencesDutch has at most nine fricatives.
Can you make a voiced linguolabial fricative?
In English, F and V are labiodental fricatives.
Ashkenazi Hebrew uses a sibilant fricative where Yemenite Hebrew has a non-sibilant fricative.
Translations
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Origin
From New Latin fricatīvus, from Latin fricāre (“to rub”).From New Latin fricatīvus, from Latin fricāre (“to rub”).
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Forms
plural: fricatives| Singular | fricative |
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| Plural | fricatives |
regular
Synonyms
2 synonyms- a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract:fricative consonantspirant