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Diaeresis

speaker

Meaning

Noun

In Orthography & Diacritical marks:
A
(◌̈)
over a
(especially the second of two
)
that it is
, usually
a
,
the English
, Noël and Brontë, the French haïr and the Dutch ruïne.
In Linguistics & Prosody:
Distraction; the
of a
, often a
, into two
syllables.
In Prosody:
A natural
when a
at the
a
, in a
of verse.
In Linguistics & Prosody:
Hiatus; the
of
in
without an
consonant.
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Origin

diaeresis
English
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διαίρεσις
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
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Etym
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