geminate
verb
- to arrange in pairs
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛmɪnət/ / /ˈd͡ʒɛmɪneɪt/
adj
Etymology: First attested in 1589; borrowed from Latin geminātus, perfect passive participle of geminō (“to double”), see -ate (etymology 1,2 and 3).
- Forming a pair.
“Near-synonyms: paired, doubled, twinned”
- Pronounced longer and considered as being doubled.
“For example, Martin (2007) notes that compounds in several languages (including English and Turkish) violate the general phonological principles in the language (e.g., English only allows geminate consonants in compounds).”
noun
Etymology: First attested in 1589; borrowed from Latin geminātus, perfect passive participle of geminō (“to double”), see -ate (etymology 1,2 and 3).
- A doubled or repeated letter or speech sound.
“The attested forms show variation in the unstressed vowels (Srd. lèppere, lèpporo, lèppore, léppuri etc.) but agree on the labial geminate. We can thus reconstruct *leppVr-.”
verb
Etymology: First attested in 1589; borrowed from Latin geminātus, perfect passive participle of geminō (“to double”), see -ate (etymology 1,2 and 3).
- To arrange in pairs.
- To occur in pairs.