Meaning of DIAERESIS
| Pronunciation: | | dI'erisis
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| | Definition: | | [n] a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound |
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| | Synonyms: | | dieresis, umlaut |
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| | See Also: | | diacritic, diacritical mark | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Di*[ae]r"e*sis\, Dieresis \Di*er"e*sis\ (?; 277), n.;
pl. {Di[ae]reses} or {Diereses}. [L. diaeresis, Gr. ?, fr. ?
to divide; dia` through, asunder + ? to take. See {Heresy}.]
1. (Gram.) The separation or resolution of one syllable into
two; -- the opposite of syn[ae]resis.
2. A mark consisting of two dots [[umlaut]], placed over the
second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to
be pronounced as distinct letters; as, co["o]perate,
a["e]rial.
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| | Related Terms: | | accent, accentuation, Alexandrine, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, analysis, anapest, anatomy, antispast, arsis, bacchius, beat, breakdown, cadence, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, dimeter, dipody, dissection, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, feminine caesura, foot, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic, jingle, lilt, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus, mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period, proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, quantity, resolution, rhythm, spondee, sprung rhythm, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee |
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