diphthong
diphthong is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(a) A coalition or union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out, oi in noise; -- called a proper diphthong. (b) A vowel digraph; a union of two vowels in the same syllable, only one of them being sounded; as, ai in rain, eo in people; -- called an improper diphthong.
- 2.To form or pronounce as a diphthong; diphthongize. [R.]
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abecedarian
- abecedary
- affix
- alphabet
- alphabetical
- anagram
- anagrammatism
- character
- christcross-row
- cipher
- consonant
- dental
- digraph
- dissyllable
- guttural
- hieroglyphic
- ideogram
- ideograph
- labial
- letter
- liquid
- literal
- majuscule
- metagrammatism
- minuscule
- monogram
- monosyllable
- mute
- orthograph
- phonetic
- phonography
- polysyllable
- printing
- spell
- spelling
- suffix
- syllabic
- syllable
- trigraph
- triphthong
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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