Etymology

fricative

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Today it means: Any of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant. Full definition →

New Latin fricatīvus ← Latin fricātus ← Proto-Italic *frios
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰreyH-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰriH-o-s
  3. Proto-Italic*frios
  4. Latinfriō
  5. Latinfricō
  6. Latinfrictus
  7. Latinfricātus
  8. New Latinfricatīvus
  9. English todayfricative

From New Latin fricatīvus, from Latin fricāre (“to rub”). By surface analysis, fricate + -ive.

Words from the same roots

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