Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Diacritical.
- adj. Medicine Diagnostic or distinctive.
- n. 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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Serving to distinguish: same as diacritical (which is the more common form).
- n. A diacritical mark (which see, under diacritical).
Wiktionary
- adj. distinguishing
- adj. orthography, not comparable Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.
- n. A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, ā, ă, ä, ō, ŏ, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. capable of distinguishing
- n. a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek διακριτικός (diakritikos, "distinguishing, separative"), from διακρίνειν (diakrinein, "to distinguish, separate"), from διά (dia, "between") + κρίνω (krinō, "I separate, distinguish"). (Wiktionary)
- Greek diakritikos, distinguishing, from diakritos, distinguished, from diakrīnein, to distinguish : dia-, apart; see dia- + krīnein, to separate; see krei- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Two of the problems that you mention, are lack of a GA that does the focussing job of RP, and the disarray of phonetic, alphabetic and diacritic systems used by different US publishers in their dictionaries.”
“AutoCorrect is programmed with a number of two - or three-key combinations that will correct the appearance of a letter with a diacritic.”
“The French feminine name, however, is “Michelle”, and carries no diacritic. kid bitzer Says:”
“The following are Pashto phonemes rendered in Arabic letters and their equivalents in English letters, some of which include a diacritic:”
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
“Chinese has five vowels, each with one of four tones, and possibly a diacritic mark.”
“It is of course a Palandine name, which accounts for the diacritic, but despite the pronunciation and the obvious shortened form, it has nothing to do with the word hawk.”
“(Jun 9 2008) I forgot the IPA wavy diacritic underneath the *d denoting creakiness (as in MIE ablative ending *-ad̰ above).”
“Alas, then, I will fall in line and agree that the only bandage to put on this is to include diacritic marks.”
“Antlers are diacritic, a growing, a branching, a choosing of routes.”
“But most browsers can read diacritic characters imported from Word, so now I type those names in a blank Word document and copy/paste them into my web data entry box.”
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