FromFrenchapostrophe, orLatinapostrophus, fromAncient Greekἀπόστροφος(apóstrophos,“accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective fromἀποστρέφω(apostréphō,“I turn away”), fromἀπό(apó,“away from”) +στρέφω(stréphō,“to turn”).
apostrophe (pluralapostrophes)
- (orthography) The text character’, which serves as apunctuation mark in various languages and as adiacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
2021, Claire Cock-Starkey,Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page30:Since its inception theapostrophe has been a controversial piece of punctuation.
- In English, the apostrophe is used to mark thepossessive (e.g., “my friend’s wife”), and to show theomission of letters (e.g., “my friend’s angry”) or of numbers (e.g., "during the 1960s and ’70s").
the character ’
- Albanian:apostrof (sq) m
- Arabic:فَاصِلَة عُلْيَا f(fāṣila ʕulyā)
- Armenian:ապաթարց (hy)(apatʻarcʻ)
- Asturian:apóstrofu (ast) m
- Azerbaijani:apostrof
- Belarusian:апо́страф m(apóstraf)
- Bengali:ঊর্ধকমা(urdhokma)
- Bulgarian:апостро́ф (bg) m(apostróf)
- Catalan:apòstrof m
- Chichewa:nkhodolero class9
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:省略符號 /省略符号 (zh)(shěnglüè fúhào),隔音符號 /隔音符号(géyīn fúhào),省字符(shěngzìfú),撇號 /撇号 (zh)(piěhào),頓呼 /顿呼(dùnhū)
- Cornish:kollverk m,kollverkys m pl
- Czech:apostrof (cs) m
- Danish:apostrof c
- Dutch:weglatingsteken (nl) n,apostrof (nl) f
- Esperanto:apostrofo (eo)
- Estonian:ülakoma (et)
- Finnish:heittomerkki (fi),apostrofi (fi) (rare)
- French:apostrophe (fr) f
- Galician:apóstrofo m
- Georgian:აპოსტროფი(aṗosṭropi)
- German:Apostroph (de) m,Hochkomma (de) n
- Greek:απόστροφος (el) f(apóstrofos)
- Ancient Greek:ἀπόστροφος f(apóstrophos)
- Hebrew:אַפּוֹסְטְרוֹף m(apostrof)
- Hungarian:aposztróf (hu),hiányjel (hu)
- Icelandic:úrfellingarmerki n
- Ido:apostrofo (io)
- Ilocano:tuldek
- Indonesian:tanda penyingkat (id)
- Interlingua:apostropho
- Irish:uaschamóg f,apastróf f
- Italian:apostrofo (it) m
- Japanese:アポストロフィー (ja)(aposutorofī),アポストロフ (ja)(aposutorofu),省略符号(しょうりゃくふごう, shōryaku fugō)
- Kazakh:апостроф(apostrof)
- Korean:아포스트로피(aposeuteuropi)
- Kyrgyz:апостроф (ky)(apostrof)
- Latin:apostrophus m
- Latvian:apostrofs m
- Lithuanian:apostrofas m
- Luxembourgish:Apostroph m
- Macedonian:апостроф m(apostrof)
- Malay:tanda penyingkat
- Malayalam:വിശ്ലേഷം (ml)(viślēṣaṁ)
- Manx:apostrophee
- Māori:pakini
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic:апостроф(apostrof)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:apostrof m
- Nynorsk:apostrof m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian:آپوسْتْروف(âpustruf),آپاسْتْروف(âpâstruf)
- Polish:apostrof (pl) m
- Portuguese:apóstrofo (pt) m
- Romanian:apostrof (ro) n
- Russian:апо́строф (ru) m(apóstrof),апостро́ф (ru) m(apostróf)
- Scottish Gaelic:ascair m,asgair m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:а̀построф m,изо̀ставник m
- Latin:àpostrof (sh) m,izòstavnik (sh) m
- Sinhalese:උඩු කොමා(uḍu komā)
- Slovak:apostrof m
- Slovene:opuščaj (sl) m,apostrof (sl) m
- Spanish:apóstrofo (es) m,apóstrofe (es) m
- Sranan Tongo:kotimarki
- Swahili:ritifaa (sw),apostrofi
- Swedish:apostrof (sv)
- Tagalog:kudlit
- Tajik:апостроф(apostrof)
- Tatar:апостроф(apostrof)
- Thai:อะพอสทรอฟี(à-pɔ́ɔs-trɔɔ-fîi)
- Turkish:kesme işareti (tr)
- Turkmen:apostrof (tk)
- Ukrainian:апо́строф (uk) m(apóstrof),апостро́ф (uk) m(apostróf)
- Uyghur:ئاجرىتىش بەلگىسى(ajritish belgisi),ىسقارتىش بەلگىسى(isqartish belgisi)
- Uzbek:apostrof (uz)
- Vietnamese:dấu lược
- Welsh:collnod m,sillgoll f
- Yiddish:אַפּאָסטראָף m(apostrof)
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Punctuation
FromLatinapostrophe, fromAncient Greekἀποστροφή(apostrophḗ), fromἀποστρέφω(apostréphō,“I turn away”), fromἀπό(apó) +στρέφω(stréphō,“I turn”).
apostrophe (countable anduncountable,pluralapostrophes)
- (rhetoric) A suddenexclamatory piece ofdialogueaddressed to someone or something, especiallyabsent.
1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Apostrophe.”, inA Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […],→OCLC,page28:Apostrophe a bold digression makes,
Mov'd by some sudden thought the theme awakes.
1842, [anonymous collaborator ofLetitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIV, inLady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London:Henry Colburn, […],→OCLC,page139:The warmapostrophe of Riccardini to this little representative of his parents, whom he called "the son of his love, the child of his old age, the gift of his beloved niece, on the behalf of his angel-daughter," affected them all;...
apostrophe
- (botany) An arrangement ofchlorophyll grainsperpendicular to theoutersurface of plant cells, as opposed toepistrophe (an arrangement on the outer surface).
1905 September 8, Harold Wager, “On Some Problems of Cell Structure and Physiology”, inEnglish Mechanics and the World of Science, volume82, number2111, page105:As is well known, chloroplast in the epistrophe position presents an oval or more or less circular form; in theapostrophe position a flattened and lenticular form.
FromLatinapostrophus, fromAncient Greekἀπόστροφος(apóstrophos,“accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective fromἀποστρέφω(apostréphō,“to turn away”).
apostrophe f (pluralapostrophes)
- (orthography)apostrophe
Borrowed fromLatinapostropha,apostrophe, fromAncient Greekἀποστροφή(apostrophḗ), fromἀποστρέφω(apostréphō,“to turn away”), fromἀπό(apó) +στρέφω(stréphō,“to turn”).
apostrophe f (pluralapostrophes)
- (rhetoric)apostrophe
- (grammar) Avocative expression
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
apostrophe
- inflection ofapostropher:
- first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- second-personsingularimperative
FromAncient Greekἀποστροφή(apostrophḗ, literally“a turning away”), fromἀποστρέφω(apostréphō,“I turn away”).
apostrophē f (genitiveapostrophēs);first declension
- alternative form ofapostropha
First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in-ē).
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