| rough breathing n. 1. An aspirate sound in ancient Greek like that of the sound (h) in English. 2. The symbol (  ) written over some initial vowels and the letter rho in ancient Greek to indicate that a word begins with the sound (h).3. In ancient Greek, a word beginning with the sound (h) plus a vowel or diphthong. |
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(Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) (in Greek) the sign (ʿ) placed over an initial letter, or a second letter if the word begins with a diphthong, indicating that (in ancient Greek) it was pronounced with an h Compare smooth breathing
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