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geminate

English

  1. 🔊 a doubled or long consonant
    “the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate”
  2. 🔊 arrange or combine in pairs
    “The consonants are geminated in these words”
  3. 🔊 arrange in pairs
    “Pair these numbers”
  4. 🔊 occur in pairs
  5. 🔊 form by reduplication
    “The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 geminar to geminate

Similar words

pair pair reduplicate janus-like ambidextrous bifacial bifold biform bilateral binary binate biparous bivalent conduplicate copy disomatous ditto double double-faced dual dupe duple duplex duplicate