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Definition of Intervocalic
1. a. Situated between vowels; immediately preceded and followed by vowel sounds, as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.
Definition of Intervocalic
1. Adjective. (linguistics) Existing or occurring between vowels. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Intervocalic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intervocalic
Literary usage of Intervocalic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by Cambridge Philological Society (1899)
"The loss of intervocalic -h-. This is not of course the only source of contraction,
but it is necessary to keep the various cases of contraction quite ..."
2. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"Lat. г for intervocalic sibilant. intervocalic s became h in Greek, ...
The grammarians often quote Old Latin forms with intervocalic s, eg loses. ..."
3. Introduction to the Study of the Greek Dialects: Grammar, Selected by Carl Darling Buck (1910)
"Loss of intervocalic or 59. Original initial s became the spiritus asper in ...
At the same time intervocalic s was changed in the same way and then lost, ..."
4. Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature (1900)
"ss = s initial become intervocalic : assi (= a si) 9, but asi 1 (p. 4, 1. 1).
... 22 gra- danse. ss = Latin intervocalic s appears very irregularly in ..."
5. The Dialects of Central Italy by Herbert H. Vaughan (1915)
"LC intervocalic before A, O, and U usually becomes RC. ... LC intervocalic before
E and I may develop into UC, the C taking the sound of Roman C before E ..."
6. Studies in Old English by Hector Munro Chadwick (1899)
"The loss of intervocalic -h-. This is not of course the only source of contraction,
but it is necessary to keep the various cases of contraction quite ..."
7. A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary by Carl Darling Buck (1904)
"intervocalic rs 115. 1. Original intervocalic rs, which becomes rr in Latin,
remains unassimilated in Umbrian, while in Oscan it appears as r with ..."
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