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diacritical

adj

Etymology

From diacritic + -al.

  1. learned borrowing from διακριτικός — “distinguishing, separative”
  2. suffixed as diacritical — “diacritic + -al”

Definitions

  1. Capable of distinguishing or of making a distinction.

  2. Of, pertaining to, or serving as a diacritic.

    • The reduplicated forms and the fineness of the diacritical strokes, render his book troublesome to the reader
    • California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).

  3. Synonym of diacritical mark (adnoun equivalent).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA