diaeresis
Meaning of diaeresis
- a mark (¨) placed over a vowel to indicate that it is sounded separately, as in naïve, Brontë.
- a natural rhythmic break in a line of verse where the end of a metrical foot coincides with the end of a phrase.
late 16th century (denoting the division of one syllable into two): via Latin from Greek diairesis ‘separation’, from diairein ‘take apart’, from dia ‘apart’ + hairein ‘take’.
Information about diaeresis
- It is a name.
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Hyphenation of diaeresis
di-aere-sis
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- diaeresis is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
diaeresis synonyms
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Words that rhyme with diaeresis
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