| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Of or pertaining to epenthesis.[Wordnet]
2. Inserted in the body of a word; as, an epenthetic letter or sound.[Websters] 3. Being parenthetic or parenthetical.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "EPENTHETIC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EPENTHETIC
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Inserted in the middle of a word.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Adjective] (linguistics) Of or pertaining to epenthesis; having been inserted into a word, as an epenthetic phoneme or syllable. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: EPENTHETIC
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Epenthetic vowel | In linguistics, an epenthetic vowel is epenthesis of a vowel, often to break up a consonant cluster that is not permitted by the phonotactics of a language. Vowel epenthesis typically occurs when words are borrowed from a language that has consonant clusters or syllable coda consonants that are not permitted in the borrowing language, but this is not always the cause. Various languages use different vowels for this purpose. (references) | ||
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