fricatize

Verb

fricatize (third-person singular simple present fricatizes, present participle fricatizing, simple past and past participle fricatized)

1. To make fricative.
   • We do not have any fricatized gutturals in English, but we have fricatized labials and dentals which we spell in very inconsistent ways. We sometimes fricatize the letter “p” by adding “h” to it.1953, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature - Volume 10, page 73
   • Thus Latin /k/ suffers voicing to OSp. /g/, which is then fricatized to [v] by about the thirteenth century (Lloyd 1987:327) (e.g. SĒCĀRE > segar "to reap" , where g => [y] , as in Modern Spanish).2002, Ralph Penny, Ralph John Penny, A History of the Spanish Language, page 76

   Synonyms:

   affricatize