circumflex
A diacritical mark placed over a vowel in the orthography or transliteration of many…A diacritical mark (ˆ) placed over a vowel in the orthography or transliteration of many languages to change its pronunciation; while in some other languages over a consonant.
» People that don't put a circumflex accent on "râler" piss me off.
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1 sensesA diacritical mark (ˆ) placed over a vowel in the orthography or transliteration of many languages to change its pronunciation; while in some other languages over a consonant.
Zirkumflex, Accent circonflexe, Dachakzent
циркумфле́ксcirkumfléks
a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality
Examples
2 sentencesPeople that don't put a circumflex accent on "râler" piss me off.
The circumflex accent doesn't exist in Spanish.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin circumflexus (“bent about”), calqued from Ancient Greek περισLearned borrowing from Latin circumflexus (“bent about”), calqued from Ancient Greek περισπώμενος (perispṓmenos, “drawn around”).
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Forms
plural: circumflexes| Singular | circumflex |
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regular
Synonyms
1 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsSee also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.