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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
geminate Phonetics

▶adjective /ˈdʒɛmɪneɪt, -nət/ consisting of identical adjacent speech sounds; doubled. ▶verb /ˈdʒɛmɪneɪt/ double or repeat (a speech sound).

– derivatives
gemination noun.

– origin ME (in sense ‘duplicate, doubled’): from L. geminat-, geminare ‘double, pair with’, from geminus ‘twin’.

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