Pronunciation
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! !! General American !! ''Received Pronunciation
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| IPA || /θɔrn/ || /θɔːn/
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| SAMPA || /TOrn/ || /TO:n/
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Noun
thorn
- a sharp spine of a plant
- a letter of the Latin alphabet (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English thigh
Alternative spellings
Derived words
Translations
- Dutch: doorn m (1) (preferred spelling), doren m (1)
- French: épine f (1)
- Italian: spina f (1)
- Romanian: spin m (1)
- Spanish: espina f (1)
See also
