cacuminal
/kəˈkjuːmənəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to a point, top, or crown.
adj
Pronounced using a concave or retroflexed tongue; occasionally palatal sounds more generally.
Dated
Example Sentences
- "1942, George Leonard Trager, Studies in Linguistics, Volumes 1-7, page 52, /L/ and /N/, slightly more cacuminal than the alveolar series, are very rare, and occur only in word-final position."
- "The cacuminal s is produced by raising the tongue-tip to a point behind the alveoli, with a concavity in its upper surface;"
- "1992, Anatoly Liberman, Vowel lengthening before resonant + another consonant and svarabhakti in Germanic, Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr, Robert L. Kyes (editors), On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods, Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 68, page 190, It is a trill, because the choice can be only between a cacuminal trill or a cacuminal lateral, but cacuminal l already exists in the system […] ."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin