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Definition of Diaereses
1. diaeresis [n] - See also: diaeresis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diaereses
Literary usage of Diaereses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metres of the Greeks and Romans: A Manual for Schools and Private Study by Eduard Munk (1844)
"The doctrine of the caesuras and diaereses is common to all, which we, therefore,
premise. ... It has two principal diaereses and two principal caesuras: ..."
2. Hiatus in Greek Melic Poetry by Edward Bull Clapp (1904)
"... caesuras on the average outnumber diaereses. These facts are hinted at by ...
are able to differentiate them from diaereses and so to identify the feet. ..."
3. Kühner's Latin Grammar with Exercises: Latin Reader and Vocabularies by Raphael Kühner (1851)
"In certain kinds of verse, certain caesuras and diaereses are necessary, and are
to be especially observed in reading the verse; these are called principal ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"diaereses occasionally. Chanoine Reusens, ' Éléments de Paléographie,' says (p.
156) : " Le point d'interrogation offre les formes suivantes :— ( AUSSI ..."
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