dieresis

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  1. noun Linguistics A mark ( ¨ ) placed over the second of two adjacent vowels to indicate that they are to be pronounced as separate sounds rather than a diphthong, as in naïve.
  2. noun Linguistics A mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel, such as the final vowel in Brontë, to indicate that the vowel is not silent.
  3. noun Poetry A break or pause in a line of verse that occurs when the end of a word and the end of a metrical foot coincide.

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  1. Late Latin diaeresis, from Greek diairesis, from diairein, to divide : dia-, apart; see dia- + hairein, to take.
 

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/dajˈɛrɛsɪs/
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