Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mark (´) indicating.
- noun that a vowel is close or tense, as é in French été.
- noun that a vowel or syllable has a high or rising pitch, as in Chinese or Ancient Greek.
- noun that a vowel is long, as in Czech dobrá.
- noun that the syllable in which the vowel appears is stressed, as in Spanish fácil.
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- noun orthography : A
diacritical mark (´ ) that can be placedabove a number ofletters in manylanguages of theLatin ,Greek andCyrillic writing systems.
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- noun a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
Etymologies
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From Latin accentus ("accent") acūtus ("sharp"), a calque of Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōdia, "accent") ὀξύς (oxýs, "sharp").
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