Associations to the word «Diaeresis»
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Wiktionary
DIAERESIS, noun. (orthography) A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive ones) indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in the English words naïve, Noël and Brontë, the French haïr and the Dutch ruïne.
DIAERESIS, noun. (linguistics) (prosody) The separation of a vowel, often a diphthong, into two distinct syllables.
DIAERESIS, noun. (prosody) A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot, in a line of verse.
Dictionary definition
DIAERESIS, noun. A diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.