Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.
Elaborative faculty
(Metaph.) the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.
1. displaying or characterized by variety; diverse
2. modified or altered the amount may be varied without notice
3. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) varicoloured; variegated
In Italian H has no real phonological value. It is rather a diacritic grapheme. The most important uses are to differentiate certain short
words,for example some present tenseforms of the verb avere “tohave” (hanno = they have, whereas anno = year), in short interjections
(oh, ehi),and in the digraphs ch/k/ and gh /ɡ/. Some languages, includingEnglish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and Finnish, use H as
abreathy voiced glottal fricative [ɦ], often as an allophone of otherwise voiceless /h/ in a voiced environment. In Ukrainian and
Belarusian, when written inthe Latin alphabet, H is also commonlyused for /ɦ/, normally written with the Cyrillic letter Г. (Note the
difference from Russianpronunciation and romanisation.) In Irish H after a consonant indicates lenition of that consonant; it is known
as a séimhiú.
In the French language, the name of the letter is pronounced /aʃ/. The French language classifies words that begin with this letter in two ways that must be learned to use French properly, even though it is a silent letter either way. The h muet, or “mute h“, is considered as though the letter were not there at all, so for example the singular definite article le or la is elided to l’. For example, le + hébergement becomes l’hébergement ”the accommodation”. The other kind of h is called h aspiré (“aspirated h“, though it is not normally aspirated phonetically), and is treated as a phantom consonant. For example in le homard (“the lobster”) the article le remains unelided, and may be separated from the noun with a bit of a glottal stop. Most words that begin with an h muet come from Latin (honneur, homme) or from Greek through Latin (hécatombe), whereas most words beginning with an h aspiré come from Germanic (harpe, hareng) or non-Indo-European languages (harem, hamac, haricot); in some cases, an h was added to disambiguate the [v] and semivowel [ɥ] pronunciations before the introduction of the distinction between the letters V and U: huit (from uit, ultimately from Latin octo), huître (from uistre, ultimately from Greek through Latin ostrea).
I n S p a n i s h a n d P o r t u g u e s e H i s a s i l e n t l e t t e r w i t h n o p r o n u n c i a t i o n , a s i n h i j o [ ˈ i x o ] ( ‘ s o n ‘ ) , h o l a [ ˈ o l a ] ( ‘ h e l l o ‘ ) , a n d h o j e [ ô . j e ] ( ‘ t o d a y ‘ ) . T h e s p e l l i n g r e f l e c t s a n e a r l i e r p r o n u n c i a t i o n o f t h e s o u n d [ h ] . T h e [ h ] s o u n d e x i s t s i n a n u m b e r o f d i a l e c t s i n S p a n i s h , e i t h e r a s a s y l l a b l e – f i n a l a l l o p h o n e o f / s / ( f o r e x a m p l e A n d a l u s i a , A r g e n t i n a o r C u b a – v g . e s t o [ ˈ e h t̪ o ] ” t h i s ” , o r a s a d i a l e c t a l r e a l i z a t i o n o f S t a n d a r d / x / ( f o r e x a m p l e M e x i c a n c a j a [ ˈ k a h a ] ” b o x ” ) . T h e l e t t e r H a l s o a p p e a r s i n t h e d i g r a p h c h , p r o n o u n c e d / t ʃ / i n S p a n i s h and / ʃ / i n P o r t u g u e s e .
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, variations of the letter are used to represent two sounds.
The lowercase form, [h], represents the voiceless glottal fricative or ‘aspirate’, and the small capital form, [ʜ], represents the voiceless epiglottal fricative.
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Authorities disagree about the history of the letter’s name. The Oxford English Dictionary says the original name of the letter was /aha/; this became /aka/ in Latin, passed into English via Old French /atʃ/, and by Middle English was pronounced /aːtʃ/. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language derives it from French hache from Latin haca or hic.
In most dialects of English, the name for the letter is pronounced /eɪtʃ/ and spelled aitch[1] or occasionally eitch. Pronunciation /heɪtʃ/ and hence a spelling of haitch is usually considered to be h-adding and hence nonstandard. It is, however, a feature of [[Hiberno-English][2] and other varieties of English, such as those of Malaysia and Singapore. In Northern Ireland it is a shibboleth as Protestant schools teach aitch and Catholics haitch.[3] In Australia, this has also been attributed to Catholic school teaching.[4] The perceived name of the letter affects the choice of indefinite article before initialisms beginning with H: for example “an HTML page” or “a HTML page”. The pronunciation /heɪtʃ/ may be a hypercorrection formed by analogy with the names of the other letters of the alphabet, most of which include the sound they represent.[5]
