diacritic
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.
Origin of diacritic
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How to use diacritic in a sentence
The word Tyranny (Tyrannie, Tyrannies) is sometimes spelled with only one ‘n’, the other being denoted by a diacritical mark.
For the ordinary purposes of Language it is not necessary to distinguish these Stopped Sounds by any diacritical mark.
The transcriber has painstakingly researched each missing entry and restored the missing diacritical mark.
A Greek-English Lexicon To The New Testament | Thomas Sheldon Green
British Dictionary definitions for diacritic
/ (ˌdaɪəˈkrɪtɪk) /
Also called: diacritical mark a sign placed above or below a character or letter to indicate that it has a different phonetic value, is stressed, or for some other reason
another word for diacritical
Origin of diacritic
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