acute accent
nounEtymology From Latin accentus (“accent”) acūtus (“sharp”), a calque of Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōidía, “accent”) ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp”). Cognate to French accent aigu.
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Communications, Journalism, Literature, Media, Orthography, Publishing, Writing A diacritical mark ( ´ ) that can be placed above a number of letters in many languages of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic writing systems.
- Derived terms
- double acute accent
- Related terms
- apex, čárka, circumflex, grave accent, kreska
- Hypernyms
- accent