Meaning

1 senses
  1. A diacritical mark ( ´ ) that can be placed above a number of letters in many languages of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic writing systems.

    Akut

    аку́тakút, окси́яoksíja, о́строе ударе́ниеóstroje udarénije

    аку́тakút

    a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

From Latin accentus (“accent”) acūtus (“sharp”), a calque of Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosō

From Latin accentus (“accent”) acūtus (“sharp”), a calque of Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōidía, “accent”) ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp”).

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Forms

plural: acute accents
Singularacute accent
Pluralacute accents

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation:acuteague

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
acute accent — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto