rhotic

Etymology
, coined in 1968 by John C. Wells.

Adjective

 * 1)  That allows the phoneme  even when not followed by a vowel, as in bar  and bard or barred ;  who speaks with such an accent.
 * 2) * 2009, Ingrid Rosenfelder, Rhoticity in educated Jamaican English, Thomas Hoffmann, Licia Siebers, World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected Papers from the 13th IAWE Conference, ,
 * Contrary to “traditional” descriptions in the literature, Jamaican English cannot be characterized as predominantly rhotic, exhibiting an overall degree of rhoticity of approximately 20 per cent.
 * 1)  Having a sound quality associated with the letter R; having the sound of any of certain IPA symbols, including, , ,  and.
 * 1) * 2009, Ingrid Rosenfelder, Rhoticity in educated Jamaican English, Thomas Hoffmann, Licia Siebers, World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected Papers from the 13th IAWE Conference, ,
 * Contrary to “traditional” descriptions in the literature, Jamaican English cannot be characterized as predominantly rhotic, exhibiting an overall degree of rhoticity of approximately 20 per cent.
 * 1)  Having a sound quality associated with the letter R; having the sound of any of certain IPA symbols, including, , ,  and.

Noun

 * 1)  A rhotic consonant or rhotic vowel (R-coloured vowel).
 * 2) * 2012, Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza, 5: The Phonemes of Spanish, José Ignacio Hualde, Antxon Olarrea, Erin O'Rourke (editors), The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics, John Wiley & Sons (Wiley-Blackwell), page 100,
 * Spanish also has two rhotics, a tap /ɾ/(vibrante simple) and a trill /r/(vibrante múltiple).
 * Spanish also has two rhotics, a tap /ɾ/(vibrante simple) and a trill /r/(vibrante múltiple).

Translations

 * Finnish: r-värinen äänne