Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To double.
- v. To arrange in pairs.
- v. Linguistics To make into a geminate.
- v. To occur in pairs.
- v. Linguistics To become a geminate.
- adj. Forming a pair; doubled.
- n. Linguistics A double or long consonant, such as the tt in the Italian word sotto or the nn in the English word thinness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To double.
- To become double.
- Twin; combined in pairs; binate.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin.
- v. rare To double.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a doubled or long consonant
- v. form by reduplication
- v. arrange in pairs
- v. occur in pairs
- v. arrange or combine in pairs
Etymologies
- From Latin geminātus, perfect passive participle of geminō ("I double"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin gemināre, gemināt-, from geminus, twin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“First, it must be known that Etruscan lacks geminate consonants.”
“If history has taught us anything it's that it is at that nexus where seeds of corporate fascism geminate, and if allowed to grow, thrive.”
“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.”
“Tropylium: one of them seems to be adjacent to an ´ayin and the other, geminate, so how about this does not need to be the general medial outcome, just a conditioned one?”
“DI; the capitals denote values of syllabic signs were ignored in favour of geminate versus simple: word-initial TI or DI to write the same word, but contrasting AT-TI or AD-DI vs.”
“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.”
“It's important to recognize however that a preceding consonant need not geminate as the following vowel is deleted.”
“Tropylium: "You suggested geminate glottalized creaky.”
Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing
“Don't take it literally as a geminate consonant, as might be the interpretation of those familiar with IPA notation.”
“Shouldn't the geminate be some kind of indication of an assimilated coda consonant?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘geminate’.
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phrontistery - g
from phrontistery.info
gabardine, gabbart, gabble, gabbro, gabelle, gabion, gablock, gad, gadarene, gadoid, gadroon, gadzookery and 439 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Nabokov vocabulary
verisimilitude, geminate, pedantic, intervestibular, equilibrist, nictitating, anastomosis, quiddity, torus, cacahuete, undulation, pensum and 135 more...
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5-0
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amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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Speak, Memory
Words gathered while reading Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov.
cracknel, shingly, glaucous, stretcherman, goodish, loden, gutticle, percha, plasticine, instar, wellhole, camera-lucida and 357 more...
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G
gloaming, gambol, garrulous, gasconade, geminate, gendarme, gendarmerie, genuflect, glebe, granoblastic, geloscopy, galère and 15 more...
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Some Words
jabot, knell, volant, crasis, confute, toxophilite, bursar, glyptic, indifferentism, spang, carrel, liberticide and 65 more...
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pairs
geminate, jugate, dyads, didymous, gemel, jumelle, trestle, biparous, bitts, geminous, lagomorph, cymbals and 25 more...
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