fricatize

English

Alternative forms

• fricativize (from fricative)

Etymology

From [Term?] +‎ -ize.

Verb

fricatize (third-person singular simple present fricatizes, present participle fricatizing, simple past and past participle fricatized)

1. (linguistics) To make fricative.
   • 1953, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature - Volume 10, page 73:

     We do not have any fricatized gutturals in English, but we have fricatized labials and dentals which we spell in very inconsistent ways. We sometimes fricatize the letter “p” by adding “h” to it.

   • 2002, Ralph Penny, Ralph John Penny, A History of the Spanish Language, page 76:

     Thus Latin /k/ suffers voicing to OSp. /g/, which is then fricatized to [v] by about the thirteenth century (Lloyd 1987:327) (e.g. SĒCĀRE > segar "to reap" , where g => [y] , as in Modern Spanish).

   • 2009, Israel Sanz, The Diachrony of New Mexican Spanish, 1683-1926, page 44:

     An isogloss, running hundreds of miles from Kaliningrad to the Rhine Valley, separates those varieties that fricatize these stops from those that do not.

Synonyms

• affricatize