Geminate is an English word with synonyms like duplicate or double. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Geminate meaning
- Forming a pair.
- Pronounced longer and considered as being doubled.
Synonyms of Geminate
Using Geminate
- The main meaning on this page is: Forming a pair. | Pronounced longer and considered as being doubled.
- Useful related words include: reduplicate, duplicate, double, pair.
- In the example corpus, geminate often appears in combinations such as: geminate consonants, geminate and, long geminate.
Context around Geminate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Geminate
- In this selection, "geminate" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, long, short, overlong, consonants, although and includes stand out and add context to how "geminate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and long geminate although the and and overlong geminate includes suprasegmental. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "geminate" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with geminate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A few languages have regained secondary geminate consonants. (8 words)
Length In a geminate or long consonant, the occlusion lasts longer than in simple consonants. (15 words)
As with vowels, long (geminate) consonants may also be written with a macron, so this transcription can be ambiguous. (19 words)
Later, the same variant was also used where r followed other lower case letters with a rounded loop towards the right (such as b, h, p) and to write the geminate rr (as ꝛꝛ). (34 words)
Where the syllable onset is a geminate consonant, e.g. in Italian, the consonant is commonly split by the stress mark, which means that the length sign is not used for gemination. (32 words)
Italian is well known for its geminate stops, as the double t in the name Vittoria takes just as long to say as the ct does in English Victoria. (29 words)
Example sentences (11)
Estonian and some Sami languages have three phonemic lengths: short, geminate, and long geminate, although the distinction between the geminate and overlong geminate includes suprasegmental features.
A few languages have regained secondary geminate consonants.
As with vowels, long (geminate) consonants may also be written with a macron, so this transcription can be ambiguous.
In many recent loanwords, there is vacillation between representing an original voiceless consonant as single or geminate: this is the case for example kalsium (~ kalssium) and kantarelli (~ kanttarelli).
Italian is well known for its geminate stops, as the double t in the name Vittoria takes just as long to say as the ct does in English Victoria.
Japanese also prominently features geminate consonants, such as in the minimal pair 来た kita 'came' and 切った kitta 'cut'.
Later, the same variant was also used where r followed other lower case letters with a rounded loop towards the right (such as b, h, p) and to write the geminate rr (as ꝛꝛ).
Length In a geminate or long consonant, the occlusion lasts longer than in simple consonants.
Unrelated roots are differentiated in various languages such as Italian, Japanese, and Finnish, with two length levels, "single" and " geminate ".
When the nine geminate consonants are excluded as mere variations, there are 39 consonants, and excluding rare consonants further decreases the count.
Where the syllable onset is a geminate consonant, e.g. in Italian, the consonant is commonly split by the stress mark, which means that the length sign is not used for gemination.
Common combinations with geminate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: