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Feminate vs Geminate - What's the difference?

feminate | geminate |

As adjectives the difference between feminate and geminate

is that feminate is (obsolete) feminine while geminate is forming a pair.

As a verb geminate is

to arrange in pairs.

feminate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) feminine
  • (Webster 1913)

    geminate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Forming a pair.
  • * 2008 , Sara Finley, Review of “The Representation and Processing of Compound Words”
  • For example, Martin (2007) notes that compounds in several languages (including English and Turkish) violate the general phonological principles in the language (e.g., English only allows geminate consonants in compounds).

    Verb

    (geminat)
  • To arrange in pairs.
  • To occur in pairs.
  • Derived terms

    * gemination