consisting of identical adjacent speech sounds; doubled (语音)重复的;重叠的 consonants motivating a short vowel were all originally geminate. 起初,构成短元音的辅音都是双写的。
verb
[with obj.]double or repeat (a speech sound) 重复(语音)
派生 gemination noun 语源
late Middle English: from Latin geminatus, past participle of geminare 'double, pair with', from geminus 'twin'