Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of apetalous plants, of the order Urticaceæ and tribe Celtideæ.
- noun [lowercase] In anatomy:
- noun A foramen.
- noun The vulva.
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- noun a diacritic consisting of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, used among other things to indicate
umlaut ordiaeresis .
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- noun an evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia
Etymologies
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Examples
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I always need something like a "smaller than" symbol or a "trema" symbol (double dot), so I alternate.
Spanish Keyboard 2005
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For example, when you are in babel's dutch language mode you can write twee "en in which" is a trema, which is not equivalent to twee\ "en, which is then (actually always) specifically an umlaut.
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For example, when you are in babel's dutch language mode you can write twee "en in which" is a trema, which is not equivalent to twee\ "en, which is then (actually always) specifically an umlaut.
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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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Hallelujah for script that schizophrenically mixes upper and lower case, and for the two dot umlaut-like trema over the i, and the acute accent mark over the final e in the word naïveté, and for the proper use of the word capitol, which has but a single proper use.
A paean to the inauguration: "Hallelujah... for being smart again. And sexy again. And optimistic again." Ann Althouse 2009
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Similamente operando all 'artista ch' a l'abito dell 'arte e man che trema.
The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844
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"'Io trema' (I replied out of the same opera) -- 'Io trema -- di te!'"
Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"'Io trema' (I replied out of the same opera) -- 'Io trema -- di te!'"
Pelham — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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My X-trema cookware pots -- my mom sent them to me for Christmas, and now I use them for everything; sautéing, baking, and boiling!
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The difference is that a trema disappears when the word is hyphenated at that specific letter, while an umlaut would stay.
focalist commented on the word trema
Two of the citations illustrate the meaning of "trema" as a diacritical mark; the others are all examples of the Italian word "trema" (= "trembles"); and none of them refers to the botanical meaning which is the only one given here!
April 26, 2010
madmouth commented on the word trema
in SBC, it means "stage fright", presumably from the root meaning whence the Italian also comes.
you are probably having an, "oh, Wordnet!" moment there
April 26, 2010