sibilation

noun

sibilation

noun

Etymology Latin sibilatio, from sībilāre (“to hiss”).

1

A hissing sound.

From the shadows emanated a hushed sibilation.
The exact labial sibilation denoted by f, and the soft sibilation z are unknown in Sanskrit.1962, Sir Monier Monier-Williams, A practical grammar of the Sanskrit language, page 18:

Synonyms: groove fricative, hiss, sibilating, sibilation, siss
Related terms: sibilate, sibilance, sigmatism
Hypernyms: sound
Hyponyms: fizzle, sizzling, swish, swoosh, whish, whisper, whistle, whiz, whizzle, whoosh, zip, zing

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