Definition of Acute accent

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acute accent
Noun
1. a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
(synonym) acute, ague
(hypernym) accent, accent mark

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Acute accent Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

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acute accent
acute accent
n : a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation [syn: acute, ague]




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Acute accent
The acute accent ( ) is a  diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin and Greek scripts. The word acute is derived from the Latin acutus ("sharp"), itself a loan translation of the Greek  (oxýs).

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