affricate
noun/ˈæfrɪkət/
/ˈæfrɪkət/
(phonetics)- a speech sound that is made up of a plosive followed immediately by a fricative, for example /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ in chair and jarWord Originlate 19th cent.: from Latin affricatus, past participle of affricare, from ad- ‘to’ + fricare ‘to rub’.
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