Meaning | A mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation. |
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Synonym | diacritical mark |
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Narrower | accent, accent mark | A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation |
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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 |
dieresis, diaeresis | A diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound |
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 |
Broader | mark | A written or printed symbol (as for punctuation) |
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Spanish | diacrítico, signo diacrítico |
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Catalan | diacrític, signe diacrític |
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Adjectives | diacritic, diacritical | capable of distinguishing |
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