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di·a·crit·ic 
[dahy-uh-krit-ik] Pronunciation Key
[dahy-uh-krit-ik] Pronunciation Key –noun
–adjective
| 1. | Also called diacritical mark. a mark, point, or sign added or attached to a letter or character to distinguish it from another of similar form, to give it a particular phonetic value, to indicate stress, etc., as a cedilla, tilde, circumflex, or macron. |
| 2. | diacritical. |
| 3. | diagnostic. |
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| di·a·crit·ic
(dī'ə-krĭt'ĭk) Pronunciation Key
adj.
n. A mark, such as the cedilla of façade or the acute accent of resumé, added to a letter to indicate a special phonetic value or distinguish words that are otherwise graphically identical. [Greek diakritikos, distinguishing, from diakritos, distinguished, from diakrīnein, to distinguish : dia-, apart; see dia- + krīnein, to separate; see krei- in Indo-European roots.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
diacritic
diacritic
1699, from Gk. diakritikos "that separates or distinguishes," from diakrinein "to separate."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| diacritic | |
adjective | |
| 1. | capable of distinguishing; "students having superior diacritic powers"; "the diacritic elements in culture"- S.F.Nadel |
noun | |
| 1. | a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation [syn: diacritical mark] |
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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
diacritic di·a·crit·ic (dī'ə-krĭt'ĭk) or di·a·crit·i·cal (-ĭ-kəl)
adj.
Diagnostic or distinctive.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Diacritic
Di`a*crit"ic\, Diacritical \Di`a*crit"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to separate, distinguish; dia` through + ? to separate. See Critic.] That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, [=a], [a^], ["a], [=o], [o^], etc. "Diacritical points." --Sir W. Jones. A glance at this typography will reveal great difficulties, which diacritical marks necessarily throw in the way of both printer and writer. --A. J. Ellis.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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