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Definition of Diacritical mark
1. Noun. A mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation.
Generic synonyms: Mark
Specialized synonyms: Accent, Accent Mark, Breve, Cedilla, Circumflex, Hacek, Wedge, Macron, Tilde, Diaeresis, Dieresis, Umlaut
Derivative terms: Diacritic, Diacritical
Definition of Diacritical mark
1. Noun. (orthography typography) A symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning, also called "tone marks" when used to indicate tones, e.g. in Vietnamese or pinyin (romanised Mandarin Chinese). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diacritical Mark
Literary usage of Diacritical mark
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"diacritical mark or SIGN, or DIACRITIC (Gk. ... although it is not properly a
diacritical mark. The dia-resis is a survival of the Greek use of two dots ..."
2. The Chinese Repository (1838)
"To the long sound of a in calm, which, in common with all the other long sounds,
we would distinguish by a diacritical mark from the shorter sound, ..."
3. Trukese-English Dictionary =: Pwpwuken Tettenin Fóós, Chuuk-Ingenes by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"dot (as made by pen or by finger poked in sand), period (in writing), spot,
diacritical mark (as dieresis). tiki2 (vo.): put a dot on, spot, ..."
4. Fundamentals of the English Language, Or, Orthography and Orthoepy: Designed by Frank Van Buren Irish (1888)
"Uses of Each diacritical mark. THE MA'CRON ( - ). I.—Over a vowel indicates the
long sound; as in late, me, mine, tone, tune, my. J The MACRON and BREVE are ..."
5. Report by United States Board on Geographic Names, United States Geographic Board (1916)
"10 be tran- * scribed as i with a diacritical mark, as In the Library of Congress
table. No. 11. The solution previously suggested is faulty In that, ..."
6. The Languages of the Seat of War in the East: With a Survey of the Three by Friedrich Max Müller (1855)
"... we should naturally use k and g, with 'a diacritical mark, to express these
modified sounds which in English are usually expressed by eh and j, ..."
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