Definition of Acute accent

1. Noun. A mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation.

Exact synonyms: Acute, Ague
Generic synonyms: Accent, Accent Mark

Definition of Acute accent

1. Noun. (orthography): A diacritical mark ( ´ ) that can be placed above a number of letters in many languages of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic writing systems. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Acute Accent

acushlas
acusis
acustumaunce
acutance
acutances
acutangular
acute
acute-angled
acute-angled triangle
acute-angled triangles
acute-phase protein
acute-phase reaction
acute African sleeping sickness
acute abdomen
acute abscess
acute accent (current term)
acute accents
acute adrenal crisis
acute adrenocortical insufficiency
acute alcoholism
acute angle
acute angle closure glaucoma
acute anterior poliomyelitis
acute ascending paralysis
acute ataxia
acute atrophic paralysis
acute bacterial endocarditis
acute brachial radiculitis

Literary usage of Acute accent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"... line 1 ; over the first Y of SYMPHYTUM insert an acute accent. Page 690, line 14; over the second A of GALLIC ARPA insert an acute accent. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Thus irot/ujp with acute accent and ... with the acute accent on the preceding syllabic would correspond fo the rule, ..."

3. A Handbook to Modern Greek by Edgar Vincent D'Abernon, T. G. Dickson (1879)
"THE acute accent. 1. The acute accent can be placed on the last syllable when the ... Words only take an acute accent on the final syllable, when they are ..."

4. A Grammar of Attic and Ionic Greek by Frank Cole Babbitt (1902)
"If the word preceding an enclitic has the acute accent on the antepenult, or the circumflex on the penult, it adds an acute accent on the last syllable ..."

5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1801)
"They make syllables long;, on which the accent falls, and allow the acute accent to change the real quantity.'—This appears to us so exceedingly strange, ..."

6. Principles of English Etymology by Walter William Skeat (1891)
"syllable, yet less than one which has the acute accent'. ... The acute accent may stand over either of the two last syllables but one in a word, ..."

7. The Classical Journal (1812)
"... instead of an acute accent; » wants the smooth breathing, and the feminine article, which is necessary to the s' nse and metre, is wholly omitted. ..."

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