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Definitions of diacritic in various dictionaries:
noun - a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
adj - capable of distinguishing
Diacritical.
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| a mark written above or below a letter that changes its usual pronunciation |
| (of a mark or sign) indicating a difference in pronunciation. |
| A sign, such as an accent or cedilla, which when written above or below a letter indicates a difference in pronunciation from the same letter when unmarked or differently marked. |
| a sign, such as an accent or cedilla, which when written above or below a letter indicates a difference in pronunciation from the same letter when unmarked or differently marked. |
| a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation |
| capable of distinguishing |
| Diacritical. |
| Medicine Diagnostic or distinctive. |
| A mark, such as the cedilla of faade or the acute accent of resum, added to a letter to indicate a special phonetic value or distinguish words that are otherwise graphically identical. |
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A diacritic also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or an accent is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (diakritikós, "distinguishing"), from (diakrn, "to distinguish"). Diacritic is primarily an adjective, though sometimes used as a noun, whereas diacritical is only ever an adjective. Some diacritical marks, such as the acute (´) and grave (`), are often called accents. Diacritical marks may appear above or below a letter, or in some other position such as within the letter or between two letters. * The main use of diacritical marks in the Latin script is to change the sound-values of the letters to which they are added. Examples are the diaereses in the borrowed French words naïve and Noël, which show that the vowel with the diaeresis mark is pronounced separately from the preceding vowel; the acute and grave accents, which can indicate that a final vowel is to be pronounced, as in saké and poetic breathèd; and the |