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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ASSIBILATE

From Late Latin assībilāre to hiss at, from sībilāre to hiss.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ASSIBILATE

assibilate  [əˈsɪbɪˌleɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ASSIBILATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Assibilate is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb assibilate in English.

WHAT DOES ASSIBILATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Assibilation

In linguistics, assibilation is the term for a sound change resulting in a sibilant consonant. It is commonly the final phase of palatalization.

Definition of assibilate in the English dictionary

The definition of assibilate in the dictionary is to be changed into a sibilant. Other definition of assibilate is to pronounce with or as a sibilant.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ASSIBILATE

PRESENT

Present
I assibilate
you assibilate
he/she/it assibilates
we assibilate
you assibilate
they assibilate
Present continuous
I am assibilating
you are assibilating
he/she/it is assibilating
we are assibilating
you are assibilating
they are assibilating
Present perfect
I have assibilated
you have assibilated
he/she/it has assibilated
we have assibilated
you have assibilated
they have assibilated
Present perfect continuous
I have been assibilating
you have been assibilating
he/she/it has been assibilating
we have been assibilating
you have been assibilating
they have been assibilating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I assibilated
you assibilated
he/she/it assibilated
we assibilated
you assibilated
they assibilated
Past continuous
I was assibilating
you were assibilating
he/she/it was assibilating
we were assibilating
you were assibilating
they were assibilating
Past perfect
I had assibilated
you had assibilated
he/she/it had assibilated
we had assibilated
you had assibilated
they had assibilated
Past perfect continuous
I had been assibilating
you had been assibilating
he/she/it had been assibilating
we had been assibilating
you had been assibilating
they had been assibilating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will assibilate
you will assibilate
he/she/it will assibilate
we will assibilate
you will assibilate
they will assibilate
Future continuous
I will be assibilating
you will be assibilating
he/she/it will be assibilating
we will be assibilating
you will be assibilating
they will be assibilating
Future perfect
I will have assibilated
you will have assibilated
he/she/it will have assibilated
we will have assibilated
you will have assibilated
they will have assibilated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been assibilating
you will have been assibilating
he/she/it will have been assibilating
we will have been assibilating
you will have been assibilating
they will have been assibilating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would assibilate
you would assibilate
he/she/it would assibilate
we would assibilate
you would assibilate
they would assibilate
Conditional continuous
I would be assibilating
you would be assibilating
he/she/it would be assibilating
we would be assibilating
you would be assibilating
they would be assibilating
Conditional perfect
I would have assibilate
you would have assibilate
he/she/it would have assibilate
we would have assibilate
you would have assibilate
they would have assibilate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been assibilating
you would have been assibilating
he/she/it would have been assibilating
we would have been assibilating
you would have been assibilating
they would have been assibilating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you assibilate
we let´s assibilate
you assibilate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to assibilate
Past participle
assibilated
Present Participle
assibilating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ASSIBILATE


acrylate
ˈækrɪˌleɪt
assimilate
əˈsɪmɪˌleɪt
barbellate
ˈbɑːbɪˌleɪt
bombilate
ˈbɒmbɪˌleɪt
carboxylate
kɑːˈbɒksɪˌleɪt
correlate
ˈkɒrɪˌleɪt
jubilate
ˈdʒuːbɪˌleɪt
methacrylate
mɛθˈækrɪˌleɪt
methylate
ˈmɛθɪˌleɪt
obnubilate
ɒbˈnjuːbɪˌleɪt
oscillate
ˈɒsɪˌleɪt
phosphorylate
fɒsˈfɒrɪˌleɪt
pixelate
ˈpɪksɪˌleɪt
salicylate
səˈlɪsɪˌleɪt
sibilate
ˈsɪbɪˌleɪt
strobilate
ˈstrəʊbɪˌleɪt
tessellate
ˈtɛsɪˌleɪt
titillate
ˈtɪtɪˌleɪt
vacillate
ˈvæsɪˌleɪt
ventilate
ˈvɛntɪˌleɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ASSIBILATE

assibilation
assiduities
assiduity
assiduous
assiduously
assiduousness
assiege
assiento
assign
assignability
assignable
assignably
assignat
assignation
assignee
assigner
assignment
assignor
assimilability

WORDS THAT END LIKE ASSIBILATE

annihilate
anthranilate
chocolate
deoppilate
dilate
disassimilate
dissimilate
epilate
horripilate
hyperventilate
invigilate
late
mutilate
on a plate
oppilate
Pilate
pixilate
plate
stabilate
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Synonyms and antonyms of assibilate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «assibilate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ASSIBILATE

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assibilate
1,325 millions of speakers

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570 millions of speakers

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assibilate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

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380 millions of speakers
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280 millions of speakers

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assibilate
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Menanggung
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

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180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

assibilate
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

assibilate
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Assibilate
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

assibilate
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

assibilate
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

समेट करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

assibilate
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

assibilate
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

assibilate
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

assibilate
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

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30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

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Translator English - Afrikaans

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14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

assibilate
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

assibilate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of assibilate

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ASSIBILATE»

The term «assibilate» is barely ever used and occupies the 198.668 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ASSIBILATE» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASSIBILATE»

Discover the use of assibilate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to assibilate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Handbook of Phonological Theory
The morpheme-final /t/ in (18a) assibilates because the conditioning vowel is in a separate morpheme; the initial /t/ does not assibilate, however — as indicated by the ad hoc symbol — because the would-be conditioning vowel is in the same ...
John A. Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, Alan C. L. Yu, 2011
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Anatolian Historical Phonology. (Leiden Studies in ...
If tiuna — means 'divine' or the like and reflects PA *dyu+, then PA */d/ does not assibilate before */y/. On the other hand, PA */d/ may appear as Pal. z(z) (prob. [ dz]) before */u/: see the detailed discussion of tazzu- 'put, place'(?) in 7.1.2 (4).
H. Craig Melchert, 1994
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Language in Canada
... aspirate.h in SEF and disallow liaison are treated as if they were mute.h words by Alberta French speakers: l'hibou [libu|, les hiboux [lezibu] ( Rochet 1994). Rochet also notes that borrowed English words do not assibilate as they do - or, ...
John Edwards, 1998
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Topics in West Greenlandic Phonology: Regularities ...
If a formative sometimes occurs with the surface vowel /i/ in a particular position there may be a convergence of the three phenomena referred to above: alternation with /a/, alternation with zero, and failure to assibilate a following /t/.
Jørgen Rischel, 1974
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of ...
If the assibilate series is affricate4, the merger of the voiceless affricated sibilant with the general sibilant can easily be understood by the process of deaffrication: *s s. This development results in the integration of the general sibilant within the ...
Taddese Beyene, 1989
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A concordance to the writings of William Blake
674 JERUSALEB »0 33 SEEING HIS SONS ASSIBILATE WITH LUVAH BOUND IN THE BONDS 685 JERUSALEB 5« 11 SOHETIHES IT SHALL ASSIBILATE WITH BIGHTY GOLGONOOZA . . 728 JERUSALEB 83 »1 ASSIBILATED WHOSE  ...
David V. Erdman, William Blake, 1967
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Saṭaāra Anagaraĕzaī-Hainadaī Śabada Kaŏśa: 30,000 Sae ...
assess astatic cTTRT; to re. act of ; evaluaassess 3f $3 v.t. to determine (tax etc. to estimate evaluate 3TT3RT | assessment 3f $w assessing tion »^C<tic|>1 I asset £ $Tz n. (pi.) property useful quality or skill U°I 3T2Tcn cf>1?id | assibilate ^ -/^?
Joseph W. Raker, Rama Shankar Shukla, 1995
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Having Fun with Words of Wit and Wisdom: In 3,401 Quotations ...
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), English clergyman and humorist, Sentimental Journey Assibilate – To render sibilant, change into a sibilant sound, from the Latin past participle of assibilare, to hiss out – church is an assibilated form of the old ...
Tom McMorrow, 2009
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Neutralization
Due to this alternation, there are ten homophonic sets out of 2,293 neutralized nouns in the list of 35,907 nouns, 732 out of 1,234,323 tokens. (5) Coronal assibilation. Coronal obstruents assibilate before 5 and 5', resulting in ( neutralized) 5'.
Daniel Silverman, 2012
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Phonological Variation in French: Illustrations from Three ...
The only speaker not to assibilate in these two words is cobrg1, who does use assibilation in spontaneous speech, but appears to be paying careful attention to enunciating sounds according to the prescriptive norm in reading style, as will be  ...
Randall Scott Gess, Chantal Lyche, Trudel Meisenburg, 2012

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