Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
ASPIRATED
Verb
aspirated
simple past tense and past participle of aspirate
Adjective
aspirated (comparative more aspirated, superlative most aspirated)
(phonetics) Pronounced with an audible breath.
Antonyms
• unaspirated
Anagrams
• disparate
Source: Wiktionary
As"pi*rate, As"pi*ra"ted, a. Etym: [L. aspiratus, p. p.]
Definition: Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath. But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an aspiration as h. Holder.
ASPIRATE
As"pi*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aspirated; p. pr. & vb. n. Aspirating.] Etym: [L. aspiratus, p. p. of aspirare to breathe toward or upon, to add the breathing h; ad + spirare to breathe, blow. Cf. Aspire.]
Definition: To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.
As"pi*rate, n.
1. A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an aspirated sound.
2. A mark of aspiration used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing. Bentley.
3. An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc.
As"pi*rate, As"pi*ra"ted, a. Etym: [L. aspiratus, p. p.]
Definition: Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath. But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an aspiration as h. Holder.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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