cacuminal

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sound pronounced using a retroflexed tongue. dated
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to a point, top, or crown.
  2. Pronounced using a concave or retroflexed tongue; occasionally palatal sounds more generally. dated
    — 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.

词形变化

more cacuminal comparative most cacuminal superlative cacuminals plural

词汇关系

衍生词

词源

词源 1
From oblique stem of Latin cacūmen, cacūminis (“extremity, point, peak”) + -al.
词源 2
From oblique stem of Latin cacūmen, cacūminis (“extremity, point, peak”) + -al.
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