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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr.

ῥωτακίζειν

to use the letter r (ρ) overmuch: cf. F.

rhotacisme

An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically

(Phylol.)

, the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were.