diacritical
121diacritic — /daɪəˈkrɪtɪk / (say duyuh kritik) noun 1. a diacritical mark, point, or sign. –adjective 2. diacritical. 3. Medicine diagnostic. {Greek diakritikos that separates or distinguishes} …
122diacritic — [dī΄ə krit′ik] adj. [Gr diakritikos < diakrinein, to distinguish < dia , across + krinein, to discern: see CRISIS] DIACRITICAL n. a diacritical mark …
123accent mark — noun a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation • Syn: ↑accent • Derivationally related forms: ↑accentual (for: ↑accent), ↑accentuate (for: ↑ …
124hacek — noun a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation • Syn: ↑wedge • Hypernyms: ↑diacritical mark, ↑diacritic …
125HEBREW LANGUAGE — This entry is arranged according to the following scheme: pre biblical biblical the dead sea scrolls mishnaic medieval modern period A detailed table of contents precedes each section. PRE BIBLICAL nature of the evidence the sources phonology… …
126JUDEO-FRENCH — JUDEO FRENCH, the Old French spoken and written by medieval French and Rhenish Jewry. It should be stated from the outset that there probably never existed a Judeo French dialect, with specific Jewish traits. The term applies only to Jewish… …
127TIKKUN SOFERIM — TIKKUN SOFERIM, certain changes in the text of the Bible made by the early soferim in places which are offensive or show lack of respect to God. Ezra is the first to be referred to as a sofer in the Bible. This designation signifies not merely… …
128cedilla — noun Etymology: Spanish, the obsolete letter ç (actually a medieval form of the letter z), cedilla, from diminutive of ceda, zeda the letter z, from Late Latin zeta more at zed Date: 1599 the diacritical mark ¸ placed under a letter (as ç in… …
