different between vowel vs vocalic

English

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French vouel (French voyelle), from Latin v?c?lis (“voiced”), a semantic loan of Koine Greek ?????? (ph?nêen). Doublet of vocal.

Pronunciation

• enPR: vou??l, IPA^(key): /?va?.?l/
• (also) enPR: voul, IPA^(key): /va?l/
• Rhymes: -a??l, -a?l

Noun

vowel (plural vowels)

1. (phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
2. (orthography) A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.

Antonyms

• (sound): consonant
• (letter): consonant

Derived terms

Related terms

• vocalic
• consonant
• liquid

See also

• vocalization

Placing of an element:

• prevocalic (occurring before a vowel)
• intervocalic (occurring between vowels)
• postvocalic (occurring after a vowel)

Types of vowels (phonetics):

• front, central, back
• rounded, unrounded
• close, near-close, close-mid, mid, open-mid, near-open, open

Translations

Verb

vowel (third-person singular simple present vowels, present participle vowelling or (US) voweling, simple past and past participle vowelled or (US) voweled)

1. (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic)

Translations

Synonyms

• vowelize
• vocalize

Anagrams

• wolve

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v???kæl?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /vo??kæl?k/

Adjective

vocalic (not comparable)

1. Used as a vowel, as opposed to consonantal, especially in Latin.

Antonyms

• consonantal

Derived terms

• prevocalic
• intervocalic
• nonvocalic
• semivocalic

Related terms

• semivowel
• vocal
• vowel

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French vocalique

Adjective

vocalic m or n (feminine singular vocalic?, masculine plural vocalici, feminine and neuter plural vocalice)

1. vocalic

Declension