OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 10851

diaeresis

/daɪˈɛɹɪsɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
crema • diéresis
A separation of one syllable (especially a vowel which is a diphthong, that is, beginning with one sound and ending with another) into two distinct syllables; distraction.
An 85-year injustice has been rectified at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey with the corrected spelling of one of the greatest of all literary names. Reader, it is finally Brontë…
The Diæresis is used to divide a diphthong into two syllables; as, Creätor.
dialefa
A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot in a line of verse.
Phrases
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