[
US
/ˈdʒɛməˌneɪt, ˈdʒɛmənət/
]
NOUN
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a doubled or long consonant
the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate
VERB
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form by reduplication
The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel
The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word - occur in pairs
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arrange or combine in pairs
The consonants are geminated in these words -
arrange in pairs
Pair these numbers
How To Use geminate In A Sentence
- I had also many friendly conversations with prominent Italians in Paris, and in every way ingeminated agreement between them and the Southern Slavs. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2
- First, That as in other words, so in these, this is in the Scripture usually an antanaklasis, whereby the same word is ingeminated in a different sense and acceptation. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
- The correlation of voice was replaced by one of intensity tense : lax, with the tense member realized with relative length, thus a tendency to an opposition geminate : simple. Bronze Age Areal influence in Anatolia and Etruscan
- We ingeminate that, introducing innovation and development mode and actively enter into the market of artwork investment and the collection market.
- If I could only find my friend Basket, or get a message taken to him," ingeminated the Major, whose teeth were chattering despite the tropical atmosphere of the gallery. The Mayor of Troy
- God, in Scripture, and so often ingeminated, as this of his holiness. The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.
- Tropylium: "You suggested geminate glottalized creaky. Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing
- the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate
- Like English geminates and schwas, Hebrew matres lectionis have a more ambiguous relation to speech than graphemes that code consonants, for example, and are thus coded less effectively.
- If the supershort schwa is word-medial, it lengthens an accented vowel in an immediately-preceding open syllable, otherwise all supershort schwas geminate the immediately-preceding consonant instead. Archive 2008-07-01