cacuminal

UK /kəˈkjuːmənəl/ US /kəˈkjuːmənəl/

adj 2noun 1

Definitions

adj

Pertaining to a point, top, or crown.

Pronounced using a concave or retroflexed tongue; occasionally palatal sounds more generally.

1942, George Leonard Trager, Studies in Linguistics, Volumes 1-7, page 52, /L/ and /N/, slightly more cacuminal than the alveolar series, are very rare, and occur only in word-final position.

The cacuminal s is produced by raising the tongue-tip to a point behind the alveoli, with a concavity in its upper surface;

noun

A sound pronounced using a retroflexed tongue.

Collocations

ADJ.

alveolar, produced

CACUMINAL + NOUN

PREP.

than

ADV.

slightly

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the

retroflex

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

1942, George Leonard Trager, Studies in Linguistics, Volumes 1-7, page 52, /L/ and /N/, slightly more cacuminal than the alveolar series, are very rare, and occur only in word-final position.

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The cacuminal s is produced by raising the tongue-tip to a point behind the alveoli, with a concavity in its upper surface;

Wiktionary

1992, Anatoly Liberman, Vowel lengthening before resonant + another consonant and svarabhakti in Germanic, Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr, Robert L. Kyes (editors), On Germanic Linguistics: Issues an

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, cacuminal is marked as dated. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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