diaeresis
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
diaeresis (plural diaereses)
- (orthography) A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive ones) indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in the English words naïve, Noël and Brontë, the French haïr and the Dutch ruïne.
- Synonyms: trema
- cot en
- (linguistics, prosody) Distraction; the separation of a vowel, often a diphthong, into two distinct syllables.
- (prosody) A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot, in a line of verse.
- (linguistics, prosody) Hiatus; the occurrence of separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables without an intervening consonant.
- French: tréma, diérèse
- German: Trema; Umlaut (colloquial)
- Italian: iato, dieresi
- Portuguese: diérese, trema
- Russian: умла́ут
- Spanish: diéresis, crema
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