noun
- A consonant sound produced with a strong burst of breath, especially in linguistics and phonetics; a voiceless stop followed by an audible release of air.
Usage: technical; linguistics
Examples
- In English, the 'p' in 'pin' is an aspirata, while the 'p' in 'spin' is not.
- The linguist explained that aspirata sounds are common in many Indo-European languages.
- Students learning phonetics must distinguish between aspirata and non-aspirated stops.
- The aspirata in Sanskrit is marked with a special diacritical mark in transliteration.