Diaeresis

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Diaeresis \Di*[ae]r"e*sis\, Dieresis \Di*er"e*sis\ (?; 277), n.;
     pl. {Di[ae]reses} or {Diereses}. [L. diaeresis, Gr. ?, fr. ?
     to divide; dia` through, asunder + ? to take. See {Heresy}.]
     1. (Gram.) The separation or resolution of one syllable into
        two; -- the opposite of syn[ae]resis.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. A mark consisting of two dots [[umlaut]], placed over the
        second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to
        be pronounced as distinct letters; as, co["o]perate,
        a["e]rial.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  diaeresis
       n : a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German
           to indicate a change in sound [syn: {umlaut}, {dieresis}]
       [also: {diaerses} (pl), {diaereses} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "diaeresis":
     Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer,
     anacrusis, analysis, anapest, anatomy, antispast, arsis, bacchius,
     beat, breakdown, cadence, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb,
     chloriambus, colon, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl,
     dactylic hexameter, dimeter, dipody, dissection, dochmiac, elegiac,
     elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite,
     feminine caesura, foot, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet,
     hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic,
     jingle, lilt, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent,
     metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus,
     mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period,
     proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, quantity, resolution, rhythm, spondee,
     sprung rhythm, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody,
     tetraseme, thesis, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee