| geminate | (n) a doubled or long consonant, Example: the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate |
| geminate | (v) arrange or combine in pairs, Example: The consonants are geminated in these words |
| pair | (v) occur in pairs, Syn. geminate |
| pair | (v) arrange in pairs, Syn. geminate, Example: Pair these numbers |
| reduplicate | (v) form by reduplication, Syn. geminate, Example: The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel; The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word |
| repeat | (v) to say, state, or perform again, Syn. ingeminate, reiterate, iterate, restate, retell, Example: She kept reiterating her request |
| bigeminate | a. [ Pref. bi- + geminate. ] (Bot.) Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a decompound leaf. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Geminate | a. [ L. geminatus, p. p. of genimare to double. See Gemini. ] (Bot.) In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Geminate | v. t. To double. [ R. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Ingeminate | a. [ L. ingeminatus, p. p. ] Redoubled; repeated. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Ingeminate | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ingeminated p. pr. & vb. n. Ingeminating ] [ L. ingeminatus, p. p. of ingeminare to double; pref. in- in + geminare. See Geminate. ] To redouble or repeat; to reiterate. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ] . . . She yet ingeminates
The last of sounds, and what she hears relates. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Tergeminate | { } a. [ See Tergeminous. ] (Bot.) Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Tergeminal |
