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sigmatic

sigmatic adjective: having the consonant s added to the root in order to form a tense or case stem.

Adjective

sigmatic (not comparable)

  1. Having the consonant s added to the root in order to form a tense or case stem.
    • The sigmatic perfect, which continues the old sigmatic aorist, occurs in Latin but not in the Sabellic languages.2009, Gabriël Bakkum, The Latin dialect of the Ager Faliscus: 150 years of scholarship, Amsterdam: Vossiuspers UvA, →ISBN, page 157
    Antonyms:
    asigmatic
  2. Relating to sigmatics.

Antonyms of sigmatic

Origin of sigmatic

From the name of the letter s in Greek, Ancient Greek σῖγμᾰ (sîgmă) (stem σῑ́γμᾰτ- (sī́gmăt-)) + -ic.

Words formed from sigmatic

Questions about sigmatic

What does sigmatic mean?
Sigmatic means having the consonant s added to the root in order to form a tense or case stem.
What part of speech is sigmatic?
Sigmatic is an adjective.

Words near sigmatic in the dictionary

  1. sigmaspires
  2. sigmata
  3. sigmate
  4. sigmated
  5. sigmates
  6. sigmatic
  7. sigmatics
  8. sigmating
  9. sigmation
  10. sigmatism
  11. sigmatisms

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