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Meaning of "epentheses" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF EPENTHESES

eˈpenθɪˌsiːz


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EPENTHESES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Epentheses is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EPENTHESES

apices · calices · calyces · codices · dialyses · diatheses · generatrices · geneses · helices · indices · latices · matrices · microanalyses · protectrices · Rameses · rectrices · synantheses · Ulysses · varices · vertices

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EPENTHESES

epeirid · epeirogenesis · epeirogenetic · epeirogenic · epeirogenically · epeirogeny · epencephala · epencephalic · epencephalon · ependyma · ependymal · epenthesis · epenthetic · epeolatry · epergne · epexegeses · epexegesis · epexegetic · epexegetical · epexegetically

WORDS THAT END LIKE EPENTHESES

antitheses · dieses · eisegeses · hypotheses · Joneses · keep up with the Joneses · metatheses · nemeses · parasyntheses · paratheses · parentheses · pareses · photosyntheses · praeses · prostheses · psychosyntheses · resyntheses · syntheses · theses · working hypotheses

Synonyms and antonyms of epentheses in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «epentheses» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of epentheses to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of epentheses from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «epentheses» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

epentheses
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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epentheses
570 millions of speakers
en

English

epentheses
510 millions of speakers
hi

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epentheses
380 millions of speakers
ar

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epentheses
280 millions of speakers
ru

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epentheses
278 millions of speakers
pt

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epentheses
270 millions of speakers
bn

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epentheses
260 millions of speakers
fr

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epentheses
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Epentheses
190 millions of speakers
de

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epentheses
180 millions of speakers
ja

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epentheses
130 millions of speakers
ko

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epentheses
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Epentheses
85 millions of speakers
vi

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epentheses
80 millions of speakers
ta

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epentheses
75 millions of speakers
mr

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वृद्धी
75 millions of speakers
tr

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epentheses
70 millions of speakers
it

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epentheses
65 millions of speakers
pl

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epentheses
50 millions of speakers
uk

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epentheses
40 millions of speakers
ro

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epentheses
30 millions of speakers
el

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epentheses
15 millions of speakers
af

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epentheses
14 millions of speakers
sv

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epentheses
10 millions of speakers
no

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epentheses
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of epentheses

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EPENTHESES»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about epentheses

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPENTHESES»

Discover the use of epentheses in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to epentheses and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Germanic Accentology
Some features are equally peculiar to epentheses and st0d. The first of them is their dependence on the basis: the former prefers the high vowels /i: u:/. Oralization and st0d stand in complementary distribution. For instance, in Br0ndum st0d ...
Anatoly Liberman, 1982
2
From the Brain to the Mouth: Acquired Dysarthria and ...
that a second patient (Broca 4) — who is the only patient with phonetic impairment who produces almost as many cluster creations (45,7%) as cluster destructions (54,3%) — more frequently resorts to epentheses than to syncopes ( 71% as ...
Y. Lebrun, 1997
3
Consonant Structure and Prevocalization
Additional arguments in favor of a CP-type interpretation of the epentheses include their sensitivity to the nature of the affected consonants, preceding nuclei, morphemic structure, stress, and lexicon. Sensitivity to these factors receives a ...
Natalie Operstein, 2010
4
Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader
Such epentheses are not unknown: think of Spanish /slavo/ → eslavo and Arabic /∑marar/ → ˆi∑marar. We must argue, as indeed must all syllable theorists, that other constraints are involved (for Arabic, see McCarthy & Prince 1990).
John J. McCarthy, 2008
5
Metrical Structure of Arabic
Selkirk (1980), as far as I know, provides the first syllabic interpretation (the first explanation) of these epentheses. The explanation hinges on the recognition of " degenerate" syllables (cf. above, 2.4.), that is, of syllables which contain empty ...
Jean-Pierre Angoujard, 1990
6
Analyzing Sound Patterns: An Introduction to Phonology
Illustrate your analysis with tableaux for fatt 'to plug,' caa.bi 'key,' Paskan 'ancestry ,' and bagaas 'luggage.' (23) b. Analyze the schwa and glottal stop epentheses. Identify. Ponapean syllable and vowel epenthesis 265 Problems for analysis.
Long Peng, 2013
7
Old English Breaking and its Germanic Analogues
1.31 Early Germanic vocaiie epentheses between it and a following consonant a} Runic sources {epenthetic vowels in superscript} Northwest Germanic tvoruhro = wor'h-to = PGme.'fworh-ci—rtf lst sg.prct.ind.. Wk. verb 1 'wrought'. Cognrne ...
Robert B. Howell, 1991
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On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods
... they arose in relatively recent time, they did so under the influence of the next round of syncope and apocope. The knot of old and new forms can be disentangled with much difficulty, but later dialectal lengthenings and epentheses emerged ...
Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr, Robert L. Kyes, 1992
9
Historical Linguistics
2.7.2 Epentheses or insertions (asta > asata) Epenthesis inserts a sound into a word. (Epenthesis is from Greek epi-'in addition' + en 'in' + thesis 'placing'.) In sound change, sounds can be inserted in several different ways; several of these  ...
Lisa Purse, Lyle Campbell, 2013
10
Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar
Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar Alan Prince, Paul Smolensky. /CV/ is analyzed as tautosyllabic .CV~. This eliminates both marks and incurs no others. It follows that two adjacent epentheses are impossible. We now pull these  ...
Alan Prince, Paul Smolensky, 2008
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Epentheses [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/epentheses>. May 2024 ».
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