tonos

noun

tonos

noun

UK /ˈtɒnɒs/

Etymology From the Modern Greek τόνος (tónos, “stress, accent”). Doublet of tone.

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Communications, Journalism, Literature, Media, Orthography, Publishing, Typography, Writing The Modern Greek stress-marking diacritic: ⟨ ΄ ⟩, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed syllable.

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