Diaeresis

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1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Alternative spellings 1.1.2 Note 1.1.3 Synonyms 1.1.4 Translations 1.2 See also

English

Noun

diaeresis (diaereses ) (British)

Alternative spellings

• dieresis (especially US)

1. A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel to show that it is to be pronounced separately from an adjacent vowel (as in coördinate, an older spelling of coordinate, and Zoë.

Note

• Although this symbol has the same form as the umlaut, it has as a different function and so in standard and technical usage these two terms are not interchangeable.

Synonyms

• (nonstandard) umlaut
• trema

Translations

• Chinese: 分音符
• Dutch: trema n
• : Diärese f, Diäresis f
• Greek: διαίρεση f
• Korean: 분음 기호
• Portuguese: diérese m
• Spanish: diéresis f

See also

• umlaut