Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
dieresis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gram.) The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of synæresis.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun orthography A
diacritic placed over avowel letter indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinctsyllable , as in naïve, Noël, Brontë. - noun linguistics, prosody The separation of a
vowel , often adiphthong , into two distinctsyllables . - noun prosody A natural break in
rhythm when a word ends at the end of ametrical foot , in a line ofverse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term diaeresis earlier diæresis, US dieresis derives from a Greek word meaning 'divide' or 'separate'.
Archive 2007-03-01 DC 2007
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The term diaeresis earlier diæresis, US dieresis derives from a Greek word meaning 'divide' or 'separate'.
On di(a)ereses DC 2007
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She loved having two dots over the e of her name and told everyone that they were called a diaeresis and meant that both the o and the e were to be sounded.
T-Backs, T-shirts, Coat, and Suit E.L. Konigsborg 1993
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She loved having two dots over the e of her name and told everyone that they were called a diaeresis and meant that both the o and the e were to be sounded.
T-Backs, T-shirts, Coat, and Suit E.L. Konigsborg 1993
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So there is a key called diaeresis (¨), which on the British keyboard is got by using Alt Gr and the left square bracket, so: AltGr+ [
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To add a diaeresis (¨) above a letter, press Ctrl +: and type the letter that requires the diaeresis.
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To add a diaeresis (¨) above a letter, press Ctrl +: and type the letter that requires the diaeresis.
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Probably because of that strange little trema (a French kind of umlaut or diaeresis) over the "e".
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For the accent challenged, like me before looking it up, to put a diaeresis above the 'e' in Zoë: in comments hold down [ALT] and key 137 into the number keypad (the number line above the letter keyboard won't work).
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Somehow the New Yorker's arcane use of a diaeresis (coöperation) or acute accent (élite) seems quaint - and doesn't interrupt a reader's flow like an additional, superfluous word; even e-mail doesn't itch.
Bruce Gilardi: The Gray Lady Doesn't Get the 'Message' (and is Promoting Porn?) 2008
uselessness commented on the word diaeresis
Aww, I wish this word didn't make me think of diarrhea... :-(
October 29, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word diaeresis
Or worse (somehow): diarrhoea.
October 29, 2007
skipvia commented on the word diaeresis
Or even logorrhea, which I think is appropriately descriptive.
October 29, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word diaeresis
Ha!
Only if you don't spell it logorrhoea. Gosh, that spelling is gross.
October 29, 2007
rolig commented on the word diaeresis
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.
December 2, 2007