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Definition of Acute accent
1. Noun. A mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation.
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
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Acute Accent
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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