diaeresis

[ dahy-er-uh-sis ]

/ daɪˈɛr ə sɪs /

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noun, plural di·aer·e·ses

[dahy-er-uh-seez]. /daɪˈɛr əˌsiz/.

dieresis.

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OTHER WORDS FROM diaeresis

di·ae·ret·ic

[dahy-uh-ret-ik], /ˌdaɪ əˈrɛt ɪk/, adjective

Words nearby diaeresis

diadem spider, Diadochi, diadochokinesia, diadochy, diadromous, diaeresis, diag., diagenesis, diageotropic, diageotropism, Diaghilev

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How to use diaeresis in a sentence

The letter sometimes is printed without the diaeresis as ‘o’.
A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States : From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848|George Tobias Flom
This is also spelled "daimio" without diaeresis above the "i" elsewhere in the text.
In Eastern Seas|J. J. Smith
The ending of a word and foot together within the verse is called a diaeresis.
New Latin Grammar|Charles E. Bennett
With the removal of the hyphenation, these have been changed to use the diaeresis everywhere.
With the Doughboy in France|Edward Hungerford

With regard to modulation, too, the lines with diaeresis differ from those without it.
A History of English Versification|Jakob Schipper

British Dictionary definitions for diaeresis

diaeresis

dieresis

/ (daɪˈɛrɪsɪs) /

noun plural -ses (-ˌsiːz)

the mark ¨, in writing placed over the second of two adjacent vowels to indicate that it is to be pronounced separately rather than forming a diphthong with the first, as in some spellings of coöperate, naïve, etc

this mark used for any other purpose, such as to indicate that a special pronunciation is appropriate to a particular vowelCompare umlaut

a pause in a line of verse occurring when the end of a foot coincides with the end of a word

Derived forms of diaeresis

diaeretic or dieretic (ˌdaɪəˈrɛtɪk), adjective

Word Origin for diaeresis

C17: from Latin diarēsis, from Greek diairesis a division, from diairein, from dia- + hairein to take; compare heresy

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