adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to a suprasegmental.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
suprasegmental
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˌsuːp.ɹə.sɛɡˈmɛn.təl/
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adj
Meaning 2
More than a segment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
Meaning 3
An effect on speech, such as length, stress, tone, and phonation type, that extends over more than one segment of sounds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
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adjective satellite
Meaning 4
pertaining to a feature of speech that extends over more than a single speech sound
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Proto-Italic *superos Proto-Italic *superād Old Latin suprād Latin suprā Latin supra-lbor. English supra- English segment English -al English segmental English suprasegmental From supra- + segmental.
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Cebuano: suprasegmental — relating to a suprasegmental
- Chinese Mandarin: 超音段的 (chāoyīnduàn de) — relating to a suprasegmental
- French: suprasegmental — relating to a suprasegmental
- German: suprasegmental — relating to a suprasegmental
- Indonesian: suprasegmental — relating to a suprasegmental
- Serbo-Croatian: suprasegmentalan — relating to a suprasegmental
- Spanish: suprasegmental — relating to a suprasegmental