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acute accent

noun

Etymology

From Latin accentus (“accent”) acūtus (“sharp”), a calque of Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōidía, “accent”) ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp”). Cognate to French accent aigu.

  1. derived from προσῳδία
  2. derived from accentus

Definitions

  1. A diacritical mark ( ´ ) that can be placed above a number of letters in many languages…

    A diacritical mark ( ´ ) that can be placed above a number of letters in many languages of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic writing systems.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for acute accent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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