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di⋅e⋅sis

  [dahy-uh-sis]
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–noun, plural -ses  [-seez] . Printing.
double dagger.
Origin:
1350–1400; orig., any of several musical intervals smaller than a tone (for which a double dagger was used as a symbol); ME < L di(h)esis < Gk díesis lit., a sending through, equiv. to die-, base of diïénai to send through (di- di- 3 + hiénai to send) + -sis -sis

double dagger

 
–noun Printing.
a mark (‡) used for references, as footnotes.
Also called diesis.

Origin:
1700–10
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di·e·sis   (dī'ĭ-sĭs)   
n.   pl. di·e·ses (-sēz')
See double dagger.

[Medieval Latin, semitone (which was indicated by a double dagger), from Latin, quarter tone, from Greek diesis, a letting through, from diīenai, to send through : dia-, dia- + hīenai, to send; see yē- in Indo-European roots.]
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