diacritic

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  1. adjective Diacritical.
  2. adjective Medicine Diagnostic or distinctive.
  3. noun A mark, such as the cedilla of façade or the acute accent of resumé, added to a letter to indicate a special phonetic value or distinguish words that are otherwise graphically identical.

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  1. Greek diakritikos, distinguishing, from diakritos, distinguished, from diakrīnein, to distinguish : dia-, apart; see dia- + krīnein, to separate; see krei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Greek διακριτικός, able to distinguish, separative, from διακρίνειν, distinguish, separate, from διά, between, + κρίνειν, separate, distinguish: see critic. Cf. discern, discreet, which are of similar formation.
 

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/daɪəˈkrɪtɪk/
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