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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Variant of dieresis.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See dieresis.

Wiktionary

  1. n. orthography A diacritic placed over a vowel letter indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in naïve, Noël, Brontë.
  2. n. linguistics, prosody The separation of a vowel, often a diphthong, into two distinct syllables.
  3. n. prosody A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot, in a line of verse.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Gram.) The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of synæresis.
  2. n. A mark consisting of two dots [¨], placed over the second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to be pronounced as distinct letters.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek διαίρεσις ("division, split"), from διά (dia, "apart") + αἱρέω (aireō, "I take"). (Wiktionary)

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  • rolig Not surprisingly, perhaps, weirdnet got it wrong again. Diaeresis, or in U.S. spelling, dieresis, indicates that a vowel is to be pronounced separately and not as a diphthong, and in naïve. It's the umlaut (which looks like diaresis) that changes the quality of the vowel, as in Übermensch. Dec 2, 2007

  • chained_bear Ha!

    Only if you don't spell it logorrhoea. Gosh, that spelling is gross. Oct 28, 2007

  • skipvia Or even logorrhea, which I think is appropriately descriptive. Oct 28, 2007

  • chained_bear Or worse (somehow): diarrhoea. Oct 28, 2007

  • uselessness Aww, I wish this word didn't make me think of diarrhea... :-( Oct 28, 2007

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