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Definition of Rhotic
1. Adjective. (context: of an English accent) Pronouncing the letter ''r'' wherever it appears, as in ''bar'' ((IPAchar /b???/)) and ''bard'' or ''barred'' ((IPAchar /b???d/)); this trait is common in much of the United States, Canada, many parts of the north and west of England, Ireland, and Scotland. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a phoneme) Having the quality of the said letter. This includes the sounds of the IPA symbols /?/, /?/, /?/, /?/, and some would say /r/, or r coloring. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rhotic
1. pertaining to a dialect of English in which the letter R at the end of a syllable is pronounced [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhotic
Literary usage of Rhotic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Senile Heart: Its Symptoms, Sequelae, and Treatment by George William Balfour (1894)
"... perhaps, justified in regarding the kidneys as cir- rhotic ; but we may be
well assured that only careful treatment can postpone, or possibly prevent, ..."
2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1888)
"to a diagnosis of hepatic coma, previously not clearly made out, which diagnosis
I confirmed on the post-mortem table by finding an atrophic and cir- rhotic ..."
3. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"The relationship of body weight to disappearance half-life was examined in each
cir- rhotic subject by linear regression analysis. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1870)
"... Disease in early life is the acute desquamative nephritis, in which this
complication is much less frequent than in the contracting or cir- rhotic form. ..."
5. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1899)
"... cir- rhotic and otherwise, we have in the specimens examined, with scarce an
exception, encountered larger or smaller numbers of minute bodies, ..."
6. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"Gas anaesthesia; right reclus incision. Opening peritoneal cavity revealed a
quantity of free greenish turbid fluid. Liver cir- rhotic, fibrin over upper ..."
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