sibilant
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin sībilāns, present active participle of sībilō (“I hiss”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editsibilant (comparative more sibilant, superlative most sibilant)
- Characterized by a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.
- 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
- She had a curious habit of prefacing everything she said with a soft sibilant sound.
"S-s-s Grace," she said, "it's just like I was telling Brother Hutson the other day. 'S-s-s Brother Hutson,' I said, 'looks like we're fighting a losing battle, a losing battle.' I said."
Derived terms
editTranslations
editcharacterized by a hissing sound
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Noun
editsibilant (plural sibilants)
- (phonetics) A consonant having a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.
- Synonym: groove fricative
- Hypernym: fricative
- 1955, H. A. Gleason, An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics, page 194, section 14.7:
- Groove fricatives all have more or less of an [s]-like quality, and are for this reason sometimes called sibilants.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editphonetics: a hissing sound
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Related terms
editAnagrams
editDanish
editNoun
editsibilant
Declension
editcommon gender |
singular | plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | sibilant | sibilanten | sibilanter | sibilanterne |
genitive | sibilants | sibilantens | sibilanters | sibilanternes |
Synonyms
editDutch
editPronunciation
editHyphenation: si‧bi‧lant
Noun
editsibilant c (plural sibilanten, diminutive sibilantje n)
Synonyms
editFrench
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editsibilant (feminine sibilante, masculine plural sibilants, feminine plural sibilantes)
Further reading
edit- “sibilant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
editVerb
editsībilant
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French sibilant.
Adjective
editsibilant m or n (feminine singular sibilantă, masculine plural sibilanți, feminine and neuter plural sibilante)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
nominative- accusative |
indefinite | sibilant | sibilantă | sibilanți | sibilante | |||
definite | sibilantul | sibilanta | sibilanții | sibilantele | ||||
genitive- dative |
indefinite | sibilant | sibilante | sibilanți | sibilante | |||
definite | sibilantului | sibilantei | sibilanților | sibilantelor |
Serbo-Croatian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editsibìlant m (Cyrillic spelling сибѝлант)
Declension
editDeclension of sibilant
singular | plural | |
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nominative | sibìlant | sibilanti |
genitive | sibilanta | sibìlanātā |
dative | sibilantu | sibilantima |
accusative | sibilant | sibilante |
vocative | sibilante | sibilanti |
locative | sibilantu | sibilantima |
instrumental | sibilantom | sibilantima |
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