A diacritic (or diacritical mark) is a mark added to a letter, usually to indicate a specific pronunciation of that letter. Of the various languages using the Latin alphabet, English is one of the few that generally does not use diacritical marks. Prominence definition: 1. The state of being easily seen or well known: 2. The state of being easily seen or well known:.
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- The first two terms are nouns that mean curriculum vitae, while the second is a verb meaning to return to or begin again. Diacritical Marks in English There are literally dozens of diacritical marks, but it is helpful to learn the basic diacritics in English, as well as their functions.
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A diacritic (or diacritical mark) is a mark added to a letter, usually to indicate a specific pronunciation of that letter.
Of the various languages using the Latin alphabet, English is one of the few that generally does not use diacritical marks. Those words that do contain them are typically foreign loanwords whose diacritics have been retained in English. The most common of these that appear in English are known as accents (either acute, as in café, or grave, as in vis-à-vis).
There are, however, a few diacritics that are used in native English words.
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di·a·crit·ic
(dī′ə-krĭt′ĭk)adj.![Diacritics Diacritics](/uploads/1/1/7/6/117660244/671070532.jpg)
2. Medicine Diagnostic or distinctive.
n. A mark, such as the cedilla of façade or the acute accent of résumé, added to a letter to indicate a special phonetic value or distinguish words that are otherwise graphically identical.
[Greek diakritikos, distinguishing, from diakritos, distinguished, from diakrīnein, to distinguish : dia-, apart; see dia- + krīnein, to separate; see krei- in Indo-European roots.]
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diacritic
(ˌdaɪəˈkrɪtɪk) n (Phonetics & Phonology) Also called: diacritical mark a sign placed above or below a character or letter to indicate that it has a different phonetic value, is stressed, or for some other reason
adj (Phonetics & Phonology) another word for diacritical
[C17: from Greek diakritikos serving to distinguish, from diakrinein, from dia- + krinein to separate]
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di•a•crit•ic
(ˌdaɪ əˈkrɪt ɪk)n.
1. Also called diacrit′ical mark′. a mark, point, or sign, as a cedilla, tilde, circumflex, or macron, added or attached to a letter, as to distinguish it from another of similar form, to give it a particular phonetic value, or to indicate stress.
adj. 3. diagnostic.
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diacritic
- From Greek diakrinein, 'distinguish from,' it denotes marks or signs that distinguish different values or sounds (pronunciations) of a letter.Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
diacritic
A mark attached to a letter to show a modification of sound or stress.
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited
Noun | 1. | diacritic - a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation mark - a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation); 'his answer was just a punctuation mark' accent mark, accent - 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 diaeresis, dieresis, umlaut - a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound |
Adj. | 1. | diacritic - capable of distinguishing; 'students having superior diacritic powers'; 'the diacritic elements in culture'- S.F.Nadel discriminating - showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste; 'the discriminating eye of the connoisseur' |
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Diacritic V Under Letter Meaning
[ˌdaɪəˈkrɪtɪk]B.N → signomdiacrítico
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Greek alphabet | |
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Type | Alphabet |
Spoken languages | Greek |
Time period | c. 800 BC – present[1][2] |
Parent systems | Egyptian hieroglyphs
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Child systems | |
Unicode range |
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ISO 15924 | Grek |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
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The modern Greek alphabet has 24 letters. It is used to write the Greek language. The Greek alphabet is also frequently used in science and mathematics to represent various entities.[3][4] Most letters in the Greek alphabet have equivalent in the English language.[5]
The Greek alphabet is thought to be where all important European alphabets came from. The alphabet was borrowed from the Phoenician alphabet around the 10th century BC, with many changes to make it fit the Greek language. The main change was that some of the Phoenician letters that were for sounds not used in Greek were turned into vowels. The Phoenicians had written their alphabet without any vowels, so this change made reading easier. This change was also better fit for Indo-European languages, which did not use consonant-based roots (meaning the word's central meaning is based on the consonant string) like those in Semitic languages such as Phoenician, Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic. Another change is that some new letters were invented for sounds that were in Greek but not in the Phoenician language. At first, Greek was written from right to left, same as Phoenician, but after the 6th century BC, it was written from left to right.
There were some differences in the early Greek alphabet depending on what part of the Greek world it was used in. The two main kinds were the eastern and western ones. But over time, all Greeks started to use the same alphabet, especially after the Ionic alphabet of Miletus was officially adopted in Athens in 403 BC. A little later, the rest of Greece did the same, and by 350 BC, during the life of Alexander the Great, almost all Greeks were using the same twenty-four letter Greek alphabet.
Later, Aristophanes of Byzantium (c. 257–185 BC), a Greek scholar and grammarian, invented the three diacritics (accent marks): acute, grave, and circumflex, to mark the tone or pitch of Greek words.
Although the Greek letters accurately represented all the main sounds of the Greek language early on, the sounds of the Greek language changed over time. Some of the vowel sounds began to sound similar to one another, aspiratedvoicelessstops became voicelessfricatives, and voicedstops became voicedfricatives. One can get an idea of how older Greek pronunciations sounded like, by looking at the Latin and English spellings of Greek loanwords like 'philosopher', 'Chimera', 'Cyprus', and 'Thessalonica' .
Rough breathing or 'H' sound
Another diacritic is a comma, usually above initial vowels. This signaled whether or not the sound of the letter 'H' was present. It is not available in our standard character-set. If this comma-like diacritic above the vowel is reversed, it indicates the presence of an /h/ sound before a vowel, diphthong, or rho. Thus, the Greek name Ἕκτωρ is pronounced Hektōr, not Ektor. Another example is ἥρως, pronounced hḗrōs ('hero').
Modern orthography
In 1982, a new, simplified orthography, known as 'monotonic', was adopted for official use in Modern Greek by the Greek state. It uses only a single accent mark, the acute accent. This marks the stressed syllable of polysyllabic words, that is, words with more than one syllable.
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- ↑Johnston 2003, pp. 263–276. sfn error: no target: CITEREFJohnston2003 (help)
- ↑'Greek/Hebrew/Latin-based Symbols in Mathematics'. Math Vault. 2020-03-20. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
- ↑'Greek alphabet letters & symbols (α,β,γ,δ,ε,...)'. www.rapidtables.com. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
- ↑'The Greek Alphabet'. web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
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