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cacuminal

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9 lettersPronunciation /kəˈkjuːmənəl/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aaccilmnuStarts with CEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate

Word origin

From oblique stem of Latin cacūmen, cacūminis (“extremity, point, peak”) + -al.

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  • 1942, George Leonard Trager, Studies in Linguistics, Volumes 1-7, page 52, /L/ and /N/, slightly more cacuminal than the alveolar series, are very rare, and occur only in word-final position.
  • The cacuminal s is produced by raising the tongue-tip to a point behind the alveoli, with a concavity in its upper surface;

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