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Definition of Dieresis
1. Noun. A diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound.
Definition of Dieresis
1. n. Same as Diæresis.
Definition of Dieresis
1. Noun. (orthography) A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over the second of two consecutive vowels to indicate that the second vowel is to be pronounced separately from the preceding vowel (as in the girls’ given name of ''Zoë''). It does not indicate a diphthong, but rather that each vowel has its full quality, within the sound-context. Now an uncommon practice in English, but still used in some other languages (e.g. French: (term haïr lang=fr), Dutch: (term ruïne lang=nl)). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dieresis
1. the separation of two vowels into two syllables [n DIERESES] : DIERETIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Dieresis
1. An alternative term for solution of continuity. Origin: G. Diairesis, a division (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dieresis
Literary usage of Dieresis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Rhetoric and Composition: A Text-book for Schools and Colleges by David Jayne Hill (1878)
"dieresis.—A dieresis [ ''] is a mark, formed of two dots, placed over the second
of two successive vowels, to show that they are pronounced separately ; as, ..."
2. The Practice of Typography: Correct Composition; a Treatise on Spelling by Theodore Low De Vinne (1904)
"THE dieresis The dieresis, always on the second vowel, may be required in some
... When a word carrying this dieresis, like cooperation and preemption, ..."
3. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1907)
"... whether masculine or feminine, whether a true caesura that cuts a foot in two
or merely a dieresis that coincides with the close of a metrical unit. ..."
4. Modern Spanish Lyrics by Sylvanus Griswold Morley, Elijah Clarence Hills (1913)
"3) (2) dieresis By poetic license vowels that normally form one syllable may
often be dissolved into separate syllables (this is called "dieresis") at the ..."
5. Mechanisms of Character Formation: An Introduction to Psychoanalysis by William Alanson White (1916)
"I asked him what "dieresis" meant and he said that "dieresis" was the mark that
one made in writing indicating that something had been left out. ..."
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