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The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
(Gram.) The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of syn[ae]resis.
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context orthography English) A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive ones) indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in the English words (term naïve), (term Noël) and (term Brontë), the French (term haïr French) and the Dutch (term ruïne Dutch). 2 (context linguistics prosody English) The separation of a vowel, often a diphthong, into two distinct syllables. 3 (context prosody English) A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot, in a line of verse.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Diaeresis (dieresis, diëresis) may refer to:
- Diaeresis (prosody), pronunciation of vowels in a diphthong separately, or the division made in a line of poetry when the end of a foot coincides with the end of a word
- Diaeresis (linguistics), or hiatus, the separation of adjacent vowels into adjacent syllables, not separated by a consonant or pause and not merged into a diphthong
- Diaeresis (diacritic), a diacritic consisting of two dots that marks disyllabicity
- Diairesis, a term in Platonic and Stoic philosophy, the division of a genus into its parts
The diaeresis (, ; plural: diaereses), also spelled diæresis or dieresis and also known as the tréma or the umlaut, is a diacritical mark that consists of two dots placed over a letter, usually a vowel. When that letter is an i or a j, the diacritic replaces the tittle: ï.
The diaeresis and the umlaut are diacritics marking two distinct phonological phenomena. The diaeresis represents the phenomenon also known as diaeresis or hiatus in which a vowel letter is not pronounced as part of a digraph or diphthong. The umlaut , in contrast, indicates a sound shift. These two diacritics originated separately; the diaeresis is considerably older. Nevertheless, in modern computer systems using Unicode, the umlaut and diaeresis diacritics are identical, e.g. represents both a-umlaut and a-diaeresis.
The same symbol is also used as a diacritic in other cases, distinct from both diaeresis and umlaut. For example, in Albanian and Tagalog ë represents a schwa.
In poetic meter, diaeresis ( or , also spelled diæresis or dieresis) has two meanings: the separate pronunciation of the two vowels in a diphthong for the sake of meter, and a division between feet that corresponds to the division between words.
Synaeresis, the pronunciation of two vowels as a diphthong (or as a long vowel), is the opposite of the first definition.
Usage examples of "diaeresis".
Of course, this is just an orthographic complication that has nothing to do with the structure of the language: In many texts, Tolkien does not use the diaeresis at all.
Besides final ë, we shall use the diaeresis to clarify the pronunciation of the combinations ea, eo and oe (sc.