sigmatic
adjEtymology From the name of the letter s in Greek, Ancient Greek σῖγμᾰ (sîgmă) (stem σῑ́γμᾰτ- (sī́gmăt-)) + -ic.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Having the consonant s added to the root in order to form a tense or case stem.
- The sigmatic perfect, which continues the old sigmatic aorist, occurs in Latin but not in the Sabellic languages.2009, Gabriël Bakkum, The Latin dialect of the Ager Faliscus: 150 years of scholarship, Amsterdam: Vossiuspers UvA, →ISBN, page 157:
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Relating to sigmatics.
- Derived terms
- unsigmatic