fricatize

present singular third person fricatizes · participle present fricatizing · participle past fricatized · past fricatized · alternative fricativize

1. human sciencesTo make fricative.

   An isogloss, running hundreds of miles from Kaliningrad to the Rhine Valley, separates those varieties that fricatize these stops from those that do not.

   2009, Israel Sanz, The Diachrony of New Mexican Spanish, 1683-1926, page 44

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   We do not have any fricatized gutturals in English, but we have fricatized labials and dentals which we spell in very inconsistent ways. We sometimes fricatize the letter “p” by adding “h” to it.

   1953, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature - Volume 10, page 73

   Thus Latin /k/ suffers voicing to OSp. /g/, which is then fricatized to [v] by about the thirteenth century (Lloyd 1987:327) (e.g. SĒCĀRE > segar "to reap" , where g => [y] , as in Modern Spanish).

   2002, Ralph Penny, Ralph John Penny, A History of the Spanish Language, page 76

   Synonyms: affricatize