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Aspirate

Aspirate (Lat. adspiro, to breathe upon), a term applied to the sound of h, and of all letters or combinations of letters containing it, as the Greek phi, chi, and theta, or the English th. In Greek writing the initial h-sound is indicated by a special sign, the "rough breathing," to which the name is also applied.