Affricate
also called affricative. a speech sound comprising occlusion, plosion, and frication, as either of the ch- sounds in church and the j- sound in joy.
to change the pr-nunciation of (a stop) to an affricate, especially by releasing (the stop) slowly.
historical examples
the affricate in words like gaol is of french origin (gele), from a late lat.
encyclopaedia britannica, 11th edition, volume 11, slice 4 various
here, the j is to be pr-nounced as a double letter (technically an affricate) as in english.
the comic latin grammar percival leigh
noun
a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point, such as the sound written ch, as in chair
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