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dieresis Definition


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diaeresis
dieresis
noun
    diaereses
    1. ) a mark (¨) placed over a vowel to show that it is to be pronounced separately from the vowel before it, as in naïve.
Etymology: 17c in this sense: from Greek diairesis separation.




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