diacritic








noun

  1. Also called diacritical mark. a mark, point, or sign added or attached to a letter or character to distinguish it from another of similar form, to give it a particular phonetic value, to indicate stress, etc., as a cedilla, tilde, circumflex, or macron.

adjective

  1. diacritical.
  2. diagnostic.

noun

  1. Also called: diacritical mark a sign placed above or below a character or letter to indicate that it has a different phonetic value, is stressed, or for some other reason

adjective

  1. another word for diacritical
adj.

1690s, of sounds, from Greek diakritikos “that separates or distinguishes,” from diakrinein “to separate one from another,” from dia- (see dia-) + krinein “to separate, decide, judge” (see crisis). As a noun, from 1866. Related: Diacritical.

adj.

  1. Diagnostic or distinctive.
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