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διαλυτικά — meaning in English

dialytika

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English meaning

  • diaeresis noun In linguistics, the splitting of what would normally be one syllable, especially a diphthong, into two separate syllables, or a gap between vowel sounds in neighbouring syllables with no consonant between them.
  • umlaut noun The pair of dots placed over a vowel, as in German ö or ü, showing that it is pronounced as a front vowel.

Senses

διαλυτικά is used for these senses in English:

  • diaeresis (orthography) The diacritical mark consisting of two dots (¨) placed over a letter (especially the second of two consecutive vowels) to indicate that it is sounded separately, usually as a distinct syllable.
  • umlaut (orthography) The diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel when it indicates a (rounded) front vowel

diaeresis — full definition

  1. noun In linguistics, the splitting of what would normally be one syllable, especially a diphthong, into two separate syllables, or a gap between vowel sounds in neighbouring syllables with no consonant between them.
  2. noun The mark of two dots placed over a vowel, usually the second of two vowels in a row, to show that it is pronounced as its own syllable.

umlaut — full definition

  1. noun The pair of dots placed over a vowel, as in German ö or ü, showing that it is pronounced as a front vowel.
  2. noun A change in which a vowel comes to sound more like a vowel in the following syllable.
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