fricative meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

fricative

noun

UK, US /ˈfɹɪkətɪv/ · South-Asia /ˈfɾɪkətɪv/

Etymology From New Latin fricatīvus, from Latin fricāre (“to rub”).

Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences 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.

Watt listened for a time, for the voice was far from unmelodious. The fricatives in particular were pleasing.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

Derived terms: dental fricative, groove fricative, lateral fricative, slit fricative

fricative

adj

Etymology From New Latin fricatīvus, from Latin fricāre (“to rub”).

Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity.

Derived terms: fricated, fricatively, fricativeness, fricativisation, fricativization, fricativise, fricativize, nonfricative, prefricative
Related terms: friction, affricate, approximant, lateral, nasal, plosive, sibilant