Learned borrowing fromAncient Greekδιακριτικός(diakritikós,“distinguishing, separative”), fromδιακρῑ́νω(diakrī́nō,“to distinguish, separate”), fromδια-(dia-,“between”) +κρῑ́νω(krī́nō,“I separate, distinguish”).

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪəˈkɹɪtɪk/
• (General American, Canada)IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪəˈkɹɪtɪk/,[ˌdaɪəˈkɹɪɾɪk]

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• (General Australian)IPA^(key): /ˌdɑɪəˈkɹɪtɪk/,[ˌdɑɪəˈkɹɪɾɪk]

diacritic (comparativemorediacritic,superlativemostdiacritic)

1. Distinguishing.
2. (orthography, not comparable)Denoting a distinguishingmark applied to aletter orcharacter.

• diacritical

diacritic (pluraldiacritics)

1. A specialmark added to aletter to indicate a differentpronunciation,stress,tone, ormeaning.

   Synonyms:diacritical,diacritical mark

   Hyponyms:accent,accent mark(synonymous inloose usage);cedilla,diaeresis,röck döts,tilde,tone mark,umlaut

2. (more loosely) A letter added toanother letterserving a similarindicativefunction.
   • 1965, Arne Zettersten,Studies in the dialect and vocabulary of theAncrene Riwle (Lund Studies in English;31),Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup,page173:

     A notable feature in N is the frequentoa spellings[…] Thea is here adiacritic which is meant to distinguish /ɔ̄/ from /ō/ on the model of the distinctionea /ǣ/—e /ē/ in the AB texts.

• William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “diacritic”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
• “diacritic”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
• diacritic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• triacidic

Borrowed fromFrenchdiacritique.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdi.aˈkri.tik/

diacritic m orn (feminine singulardiacritică,masculine pluraldiacritici,feminine/neuter pluraldiacritice)

1. diacritic,diacritical

diacritic n (pluraldiacritice)

1. diacritic

   Synonym:semn diacritic

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