Etymology

affricative

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Today it means: An affricate. Full definition →

English affricate ← Latin affricātus ← Proto-Italic *frios
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  2. Proto-Italic*ad
  3. Proto-Italic*ad-
  4. Latinad-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*bʰreyH-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*bʰriH-o-s
  7. Proto-Italic*frios
  8. Latinfriō
  9. Latinfricō
  10. Latinaffricō
  11. Latinaffricātus
  12. Englishaffricate
  13. English todayaffricative

From affricate + -ive.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.