Definition of Diaeresis. Meaning of Diaeresis. Synonyms of Diaeresis

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Definition of Diaeresis

Diaeresis
Diaeresis 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.

Meaning of Diaeresis from wikipedia

- The diaeresis (/daɪˈɛriːsɪs/ dy-ERR-ee-sis; also known as the tréma) and the umlaut (/ˈʊmlaʊt/) are two different homoglyphic diacritical marks. They...
- Diaeresis (dieresis, diëresis) /daɪˈɛrɪsɪs/ may refer to: Diaeresis (prosody), pronunciation of vowels in a diphthong separately, or the division made...
- Estonian, German, Hungarian and Turkish), but as the letter U with an umlaut/diaeresis in others such as Catalan, Galician, Occitan and Spanish. Although not...
- extended Latin alphabets, or the letter "o" modified with an umlaut or diaeresis. In many languages, the letter "ö", or the "o" modified with an umlaut...
- several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter A with an umlaut mark or diaeresis. The letter Ä occurs as an independent letter in the Finnish, Swedish...
- A with diaeresis may refer to: A with diaeresis (Cyrillic), a conventional name of letter Ӓ, ä from several Cyrillic alphabets: Gagauz, Khanty, Kildin...
- In poetic meter, diaeresis (/daɪˈɛrɪsɪs/ or /daɪˈɪərɪsɪs/, also spelled diæresis or dieresis) has two meanings: the separate pronunciation of the two...
- Ë, ë (e-diaeresis) is a letter in the Albanian, Kashubian, Emilian-Romagnol, Ladin, and Lenape alphabets. As a variant of the letter e, it also appears...
- 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...
- diacritics: a single accent or tonos (΄) that indicates stress, and the diaeresis (¨), which usually indicates a hiatus but occasionally indicates a diphthong:...
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