Definitions For Rhotic

Noun

RHOTIC (plural RHOTICs) (phonetics) A rhotic consonant or rhotic vowel (r-coloured vowel).

Hyponyms

rhotic phoneme R-coloured vowel

Adjective

(not comparable) (linguistics, of an English accent) That allows the phoneme even when not followed by a vowel, as in bar () and bard or barred (); (of an English speaker) who speaks with such an accent. : (linguistics, phonetics, of a phoneme) Having a sound quality associated with the letter r; having the sound of any of certain IPA symbols, including , , , and . :  ) to the right of the regular symbol for the vowel. The rhotic consonants are , , , , , , and .

Antonyms

non-rhotic

Derived terms

prerhotic rhoticity

Related terms

rhotacism

Etymology

, coined 1968 by w:john c. wells, john c. wells.

Anagrams

Ch'orti', Chorti, hortic, thoric, tricho-, trochi