geminate

Borrowed from Latin geminātus, perfect passive participle of geminō (“to double”).

Adjective

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛmɪnət/

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Verb

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛmɪneɪt/

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geminate (not comparable)

1. Forming a pair.

   Near-synonyms: paired, doubled, twinned

2. (phonology, of a consonant) Pronounced longer and considered as being doubled.

   Synonym: geminated

   • 2008, Sara Finley, Review of “The Representation and Processing of Compound Words”‎^[1]:

     For example, Martin (2007) notes that compounds in several languages (including English and Turkish) violate the general phonological principles in the language (e.g., English only allows geminate consonants in compounds).

geminate (third-person singular simple present geminates, present participle geminating, simple past and past participle geminated)

1. To arrange in pairs.
2. To occur in pairs.

• Gemini

geminate (plural geminates)

1. (phonology) A doubled or repeated letter or speech sound.
   • 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 405:

     The attested forms show variation in the unstressed vowels (Srd. lèppere, lèpporo, lèppore, léppuri etc.) but agree on the labial geminate. We can thus reconstruct *leppVr-.

geminate

1. inflection of geminare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

geminate f pl

1. feminine plural of geminato

gemināte

1. vocative masculine singular of geminātus

geminate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of geminar combined with te