About The Word Diaeresis
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Diaeresis
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What's The Definition Of Diaeresis?
[n] a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound
Synonyms | Synonyms for Diaeresis: dieresis | umlaut Related Terms | Find terms related to Diaeresis: accent | accentuation | Alexandrine | amphibrach | amphimacer | anacrusis | analysis | anapest | anatomy | antispast | arsis | bacchius | beat | breakdown | cadence | caesura | catalexis | chloriamb | chloriambus | colon | counterpoint | cretic | dactyl | dactylic hexameter | dimeter | dipody | dissection | dochmiac | elegiac | elegiac couplet | elegiac pentameter | emphasis | epitrite | feminine caesura | foot | heptameter | heptapody | heroic couplet | hexameter | hexapody | iamb | iambic | iambic pentameter | ictus | ionic | jingle | lilt | masculine caesura | measure | meter | metrical accent | metrical foot | metrical group | metrical unit | metron | molossus | mora | movement | numbers | paeon | pentameter | pentapody | period | proceleusmatic | pyrrhic | quantity | resolution | rhythm | spondee | sprung rhythm | stress | swing | syzygy | tetrameter | tetrapody | tetraseme | thesis | tribrach | trimeter | tripody | triseme | trochee See Also | diacritic | diacritical mark Diaeresis In Webster's Dictionary \Di*[ae]r"e*sis\, Dieresis \Di*er"e*sis\ (?; 277), n.;
pl. {Di[ae]reses} or {Diereses}. [L. diaeresis, Gr. ?, fr. ?
to divide; dia` through, asunder + ? to take. See {Heresy}.]
1. (Gram.) The separation or resolution of one syllable into
two; -- the opposite of syn[ae]resis.
2. A mark consisting of two dots [[umlaut]], placed over the
second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to
be pronounced as distinct letters; as, co["o]perate,
a["e]rial.
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