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DIACRITICAL MARK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
Synonyms:
diacritic; diacritical mark
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("diacritical mark" is a kind of...):
mark (a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diacritical mark"):
accent; accent mark (a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation)
breve (a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound)
cedilla (a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s)
circumflex (a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality)
hacek; wedge (a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation)
macron (a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound)
tilde (a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization)
umlaut (a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate a change in sound in some languages)
diaeresis; dieresis (a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel)
