1. Plural of aspirata; in historical linguistics, consonants pronounced with a strong burst of breath, particularly in ancient Greek and Latin phonology.
Usage: technical; linguistics; historical

Examples

• In ancient Greek, the aspiratae included phi, theta, and chi.
• Latin grammarians distinguished between the aspiratae and the non-aspirated stops.
• The aspiratae were marked with the rough breathing mark in Greek orthography.
• Phonologists study how aspiratae evolved differently across Indo-European languages.