Learned borrowing fromLatincircumflexus(“bent about”),calqued fromAncient Greekπερισπώμενος(perispṓmenos,“drawn around”).
circumflex (pluralcircumflexes)
- Adiacritical mark (ˆ) placed over avowel in theorthography ortransliteration of manylanguages to change itspronunciation; while in some other languages over aconsonant.
- Synonym:circumflex accent
circumflex accent
- Afrikaans:sirkumfleks,kappie
- Bulgarian:циркумфле́кс m(cirkumfléks)
- Catalan:circumflex m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:抑揚音符 /抑扬音符(yìyáng yīnfú),抑揚符 /抑扬符(yìyángfú)
- Czech:stříška (cs) f,vokáň
- Danish:cirkumfleks c
- Dutch:accent circonflexe (nl) n,circonflexe (nl) m,circumflex (nl) m,dakje (nl) n(informal)
- Esperanto:ĉapelo,cirkumflekso(proscribed)
- Finnish:sirkumfleksi (fi)
- French:circonflexe (fr) m,accent circonflexe (fr) m
- Galician:circunflexo (gl) m
- German:(general)Zirkumflex (de) m;(chiefly of French)Accent circonflexe (de) m;(informal)Dach (de) n
- Greek:
- Ancient:περισπωμένη f(perispōménē),ὀξύβαρις f(oxúbaris)
- Hebrew:גַּג (he) m(gag)
- Hungarian:kúpos ékezet,hajtott ékezet,csúcsos ékezet,circumflex (hu),(somewhat informal)háztető (hu)
- Icelandic:hattur (is) m
- Indonesian:sirkumfleks (id)
- Irish:cuairín m
- Italian:accento circonflesso m,circonflesso (it) m
- Japanese:サーカムフレックス(sākamufurekkusu)
- Korean:곡절 부호(gokjeol buho)
- Latvian:cirkumflekss
- Malay:sirkumfleks
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:cirkumfleks (no) m,sirkumfleks (no) m,accent circonflexe m
- Nynorsk:cirkumfleks m,sirkumfleks m,accent circonflexe m(French)
- Polish:daszek (pl) m
- Portuguese:circunflexo (pt) m,acento circunflexo (pt) m
- Romanian:accent circumflex (ro) f
- Russian:циркумфле́кс (ru) m(cirkumfléks)
- Slovak:vokáň,cirkumflex m
- Spanish:circunflejo (es) m
- Sranan Tongo:topimarki
- Swedish:cirkumflex (sv) c
- Tagalog:pakupya
- Turkish:sirkonfleks,düzeltme işareti (tr),şapka (tr),şapka işareti (tr)
- Vietnamese:dấu mũ
- Volapük:sirkumfleg
- Welsh:to bach m,acen grom f,hirnod m
- West Frisian:breedteken n
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circumflex
- Having acircumflex mark.
- ê is ecircumflex.
- Curving around.
- Thecircumflex coronary artery
circumflex (third-person singular simple presentcircumflexes,present participlecircumflexing,simple past and past participlecircumflexed)
- To mark or pronounce with acircumflex.
tocircumflex a syllable
1791,John Walker,Critical Pronouncing Dictionary:those words[…]circumflexed on the last syllabe
- (obsolete) Toarch.
1687, John Aubrey,Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page105:A venerable old man sitting in a chaire, with a severe aspect, wrinkled forehead,circumflex't eie-browes, great white curled beard.
to mark or pronounce with circumflex
Learned borrowing fromLatincircumflexus.
circumflex m (pluralcircumflexos)
- circumflex
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circumflex m orn (pluralcircumflexen,nodiminutive)
- circumflex
- “circumflex” inWoordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
Borrowed fromLatincircumflexus orFrenchcirconflexe.
circumflex m orn (feminine singularcircumflexă,masculine pluralcircumflecși,feminine/neuter pluralcircumflexe)
- circumflex
circumflex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia