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velar, a. (and n.)|ˈviːlə(r)|
Also 9 erron. vellar.
[ad. It. velare, F. vélaire, or L. vēlār-is, f. L. vēlum sail, curtain, etc.: cf. velum.]
1. Arch. (See quots.)
1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 55/1 A Vault..which for its resemblance to a swelling Sail, we..call a Velar Cupola. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 595 Vellar cupola, a cupola or dome, terminated by four or more walls. 1842Gwilt Archit. 1050.
2. a. Phonetics. Of sounds: Produced by means of the soft palate.
Applied specifically to one of the two sets of guttural sounds existing in the original Indo-European language.
1876Academy 4 Nov. 457/1 The author begins with the now well-known distinction of the k sounds into two sets, which he calls velar and palatal. 1883I. Taylor Alphabet I. 160 The Semitic alphabets..have no symbols for certain classes of sounds, such as the velar gutturals. 1888King & Cookson Sounds & Infl. vi. 117 According to place of articulation they can be divided into labial, dental, palatal, and velar sounds.
b. As n. A velar guttural.
1886T. Le M. Douse Introd. Gothic 37 The guttural element of a velar may vanish. Ibid., The velars themselves may be palatalized. 1888King & Cookson Sounds & Infl. vi. 118 The distinction between palatals and velars is comparatively recent and of great importance in the history of modern philology.
3. Zool. Of or pertaining to a velum.
1878F. J. Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 328 The cilia in the velar circlet are those that are most markedly developed. 1880Nature XXII. 147/2 Velar centrifugal canals..are peculiar to this genus. 1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 663/1 The post-oral hemisphere of the Trochosphere grows more rapidly than the anterior or velar area.
Hence veˈlarity, velar quality.
1952Archivum Linguisticum IV. 72 The apostrophe after n and g indicates velarity. 1964[see alveolarity s.v. alveolar a. and n.]. |