diacritic
A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone,…A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
» These diacritics are unnecessary and aesthetically displeasing.
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2 sensesA special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
A letter added to another letter serving a similar indicative function.
Examples
5 sentencesThese diacritics are unnecessary and aesthetically displeasing.
There's no diacritics in English.
ruВ английском языке нет диакритических знаков. — marafon
deIn der englischen Sprache gibt es keine diakritischen Zeichen. — Waldelfe
It is more elegant to use diacritics, rather than multiple letters, to represent a sound.
The Kabyle language uses diacritics in its writing.
I think orthography should be etymological. Etymological letters or diacritics help promote textual comprehension with related or lexically similar languages.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek διακριτικός (diakritikós, “distinguishing, separativeLearned borrowing from Ancient Greek διακριτικός (diakritikós, “distinguishing, separative”), from διακρῑ́νω (diakrī́nō, “to distinguish, separate”), from δια- (dia-, “between”) + κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “I separate, distinguish”).
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Forms
plural: diacritics| Singular | diacritic |
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| Plural | diacritics |
regular
Synonyms
2 synonyms- a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation:diacritical mark
Word family
4 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.