Assibilate Definition
ə-sĭbə-lāt
assibilated, assibilate
verb
To pronounce with a hissing sound; make sibilant.
American Heritage
To change into or accompany with a hissing sound.
Webster's New World
(linguistics, phonetics) To change into or pronounce with the accompaniment of a sibilant sound or sounds.
Wiktionary
(linguistics, phonetics) To change by assibilation.
Wiktionary
Origin of Assibilate
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From Latin assībilātus (“murmured, whispered at, hissed”), past participle of assībilō (“hiss at”, verb), from ad (“at”) + sībilō (“hiss”, verb), from sībilus (“a hissing, whistling”), of imitative origin.
From Wiktionary
ad– sibilate
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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