| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| epenthesis |
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| SYLLABICATION: | e·pen·the·sis |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -p n th-ss |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. e·pen·the·ses (-s z )
The insertion of a sound in the middle of a word, as in Middle English thunder from Old English thunor. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Latin, from Greek, from epentithenai, to insert : ep-, epi-, epi- + en-, in; see en–2 + tithenai, to place; see dh- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | epen·thetic (pn-thtk) —ADJECTIVE
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