fricative

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

New Latin fricativus, from Classical Latin fricāre, present active infinitive of fricō (“I rub”).

PronunciationEdit

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɪkətɪv/

NounEdit

fricative (plural fricatives)

1. (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.

SynonymsEdit

• (archaic) spirant

Derived termsEdit

• dental fricative
• groove fricative
• lateral fricative
• slit fricative

TranslationsEdit

consonant

• Armenian: շփական (hy) (špʿakan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擦音 (zh) (cāyīn)

• Czech: frikativa f
• Danish: hæmmelyd c, frikativ c
• Dutch: fricatief (nl) m, wrijfklank (nl) m
• Finnish: frikatiivi (fi), hankausäänne
• French: fricative (fr) f
• Georgian: სპირანტი (sṗiranṭi), ფრიკატივი (priḳaṭivi), ნაპრალოვანი (naṗralovani)
• German: Frikativ (de) m, Reibelaut (de) m
• Icelandic: önghljóð n
• Japanese: 摩擦音 (masatsuon)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frikativ (no) m, spirant m

  Nynorsk: frikativ m, spirant m

• Portuguese: fricativa (pt) f
• Russian: фрикативный (ru) m (frikativnyj), щелево́й (ru) m (ščelevój)
• Scottish Gaelic: suathach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фри̏катӣв m, стру̑јнӣк m, тјѐсначнӣк m (Ijekavian), тјѐсначнӣк m (Ekavian)

  Roman: frȉkatīv (sh) m, strȗjnīk (sh) m, tjèsnačnīk (sh) m (Ijekavian), tèsnačnīk m (Ekavian)

• Spanish: fricativa (es) f
• Swedish: frikativa (sv) c

AdjectiveEdit

fricative (comparative more fricative, superlative most fricative)

1. (phonetics) produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity.

TranslationsEdit

produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity

• Danish: frikativ
• French: fricatif (fr)

• Georgian: ფრიკატიული (priḳaṭiuli), ნაპრალოვანი (naṗralovani)
• Scottish Gaelic: suathach

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from fricative

• fricatively
• fricativeness
• fricativisation

• fricativise
• fricativization
• fricativize

• nonfricative
• prefricative

See alsoEdit

• affricate
• approximant
• lateral
• nasal
• plosive
• sibilant

Further readingEdit

• Fricative consonant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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FrenchEdit

NounEdit

fricative f (plural fricatives)

1. (phonetics) fricative

AdjectiveEdit

fricative

1. feminine singular of fricatif

Further readingEdit

• “fricative” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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ItalianEdit

AdjectiveEdit

fricative

1. feminine plural of fricativo

AnagramsEdit

• vetrifica