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Diacritic
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Meaning
Adj
●
distinguishing
●
In Orthography & Diacritical marks:
Denoting a
distinguishing
mark
applied
to a
letter
or character.
Noun
●
In Diacritical marks:
A
special
mark
added
to a
letter
to
indicate
a different
pronunciation
,
stress
,
tone
, or meaning.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
diacritic
English
διακριτικός
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
διακρίνειν
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Sourced from
Etym
Related
Diaeresis
Circumflex
Schwa
Vowel
Consonant
Umlaut
Digraph
Diphthong
Distinguishing
Substitution Cipher
Phonetic Symbols
Acute Accent
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