diacritic
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek διακριτικός (diakritikós, “distinguishing, separative”), from διακρίνειν (diakrínein, “to distinguish, separate”), from διά (diá, “between”) + κρίνω (krínō, “I separate, distinguish”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]diacritic (comparative more diacritic, superlative most diacritic)
- distinguishing
- (orthography, not comparable) Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]distinguishing — see diacritical
denoting a distinguishing mark — see diacritical
Noun
[edit]diacritic (plural diacritics)
- A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
- Synonyms: diacritical, diacritical mark
- Hyponyms: accent, accent mark (synonymous in loose usage); cedilla, diaeresis, röck döts, tilde, tone mark, umlaut
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]diacritical mark — see diacritical mark
Further reading
[edit]- “diacritic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “diacritic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
diacritic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French diacritique.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]diacritic m or n (feminine singular diacritică, masculine plural diacritici, feminine and neuter plural diacritice)
Declension
[edit]Declension of diacritic
singular | plural | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | diacritic | diacritică | diacritici | diacritice | ||
definite | diacriticul | diacritica | diacriticii | diacriticele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | diacritic | diacritice | diacritici | diacritice | ||
definite | diacriticului | diacriticei | diacriticelor | diacriticilor |
Noun
[edit]diacritic n (plural diacritice)
- diacritic
- Synonym: semn diacritic
Declension
[edit]Declension of diacritic
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) diacritic | diacriticul | (niște) diacritice | diacriticele |
genitive/dative | (unui) diacritic | diacriticului | (unor) diacritice | diacriticelor |
vocative | diacriticule | diacriticelor |
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *krey-
- English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
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- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- en:Orthography
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Diacritical marks
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian adjectives
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian neuter nouns