acute accent
Etymology
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Etymology
From Latin accentus acūtus ("sharp"), a calque of Ancient Greek προσῳδία ὀξύς ("sharp").
Cognate to French accent aigu.
Nounacute accent (plural acute accents)
- (orthography): A diacritical mark ( ´ ) that can be placed above a number of letters in many languages of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic writing systems.
- French: accent aigu
- German: Akut
- Italian: accento acuto
- Portuguese: acento agudo
- Russian: аку́т
- Spanish: tilde, acento agudo
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