affricate


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
affricate /ˈafrɪkət/
noun Phonetics a phoneme which combines a plosive with an immediately following fricative or spirant sharing the same place of articulation, e.g. ch as in chair and j as in jar.
– origin C19: from L. affricat-, affricare, from ad- ‘to’ + fricare ‘to rub’.
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