adj
Meaning 1
Pertaining to a point, top, or crown.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
cacuminal
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/kəˈkjuːmənəl/
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adj
Meaning 2
Pronounced using a concave or retroflexed tongue; occasionally palatal sounds more generally.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences
Examples
- 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.
- 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 [...] .
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A sound pronounced using a retroflexed tongue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: retroflex
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From oblique stem of Latin cacūmen, cacūminis (“extremity, point, peak”) + -al.
Across languages
Translations
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Russian: верхушечный (verxušečnyj) — pertaining to a point, top, or crown
- Russian: какуминальный (kakuminalʹnyj) — phonetics
- Russian: ретрофлексный (retrofleksnyj) — phonetics