macron
krɒn, ˈmæk noun
a horizontal line used as a diacritic over a vowel to indicate that it has a long sound or other specified pronunciation, as (ā) in fate (fāt).
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| —n | |
| a diacritical mark (¯) placed over a letter, used in prosody, in the orthography of some languages, and in several types of phonetic respelling systems, to represent a long vowel | |
| [C19: from Greek makron something long, from makros long] | |
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Macron
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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Word Origin & History
macron
"short horizontal line placed over a vowel to indicate length," 1851, from Gk. makron, neut. of makros "long" (see macro-).
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