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gravo-acute accent

noun
/ˌɡɹɑːvəʊəˈkjuːt ˈæksənt/UK

Etymology

From gravo- + acute + accent.

  1. derived from acūta
  2. inherited from acute
  3. prefixed as gravo-acute accent — “gravo + acute”

Definitions

  1. A dipping tone, or the diacritic that denotes it, similar in form to the breve (˘) and…

    A dipping tone, or the diacritic that denotes it, similar in form to the breve (˘) and the háček (ˇ).

    • ( ˘ ) Gravo-acute accent, or gravo-acute circumflex.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gravo-acute accent. 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