RHOTIC

Etymology

Adjective

rhotic (not comparable)

(linguistics, of an English accent) That allows the phoneme /ɹ/ even when not followed by a vowel, as in bar (/bɑːɹ/) and bard or barred (/bɑːɹd/); (of an English speaker) who speaks with such an accent.

(linguistics, phonetics, of a phoneme) Having a sound quality associated with the letter R; having the sound of any of certain IPA symbols, including /ɹ/, /ɻ/, /ɚ/, /ɝ/ and /r/.

Antonyms

• non-rhotic

Noun

rhotic (plural rhotics)

(phonetics) A rhotic consonant or rhotic vowel (R-coloured vowel).

Hyponyms

• (rhotic phoneme): R-coloured vowel

Anagrams

• Ch'orti', Chorti, hortic, thoric, tricho-, trochi

Source: Wiktionary



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