dieresi — meaning in English
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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.
Senses
dieresi 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.
- diaeresis (prosody) A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot in a line of verse.
diaeresis — full definition
- 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.
- 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.
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