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inflessione — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • accent noun A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, typical of a region, country, or social group.
  • inflection noun (grammar) The way words change their form to show grammatical features such as tense or number.

Senses

inflessione is used for these senses in English:

  • accent (linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
  • inflection A change in pitch or tone of voice.
  • inflection (mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.

accent — full definition

  1. noun A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, typical of a region, country, or social group.
  2. noun A mark placed over a letter to show pronunciation or stress.
  3. noun A detail that stands out and adds emphasis or contrast, especially in design.
  4. verb To emphasize or draw attention to something.

inflection — full definition

  1. noun (grammar) The way words change their form to show grammatical features such as tense or number.
  2. noun (grammar) A particular kind of word change that applies to a certain group of words.
  3. noun (grammar) A letter or group of letters added to a word to show such a change.
  4. noun Any specific morphological form of a particular term, such as the principal parts for any given stem; any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
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