| 单词 | acute accent |
| 释义 | > as lemmasacute accent acute accent n. (also †accent acute) [after classical Latin accentus acūtus] (a) a raised pitch or stress on a particular syllable; (b) the mark ´ placed over letters in some languages, originally to indicate raised pitch, and subsequently stress, vowel quality, vowel length, or any of various other phonetic distinctions. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > written character not a letter > diacritic > types of prickOE tittlec1384 acute accent1555 windabout1589 cerilla1591 cedilla1599 acute1609 circumflex1609 grave1609 diaeresis1611 dialysis1665 dot1693 short accent, mark1704 long mark1729 síneadh fada1768 macron1851 macrotone1880 tilde1915 umlaut1938 fada1981 ogonek1981 the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [noun] > accent > pitch accent > acute acute accent1555 acute1609 1555 R. Sherry Treat. Figures Gram. & Rhetorike f. vv The Grammarians haue made good prouision, which to euery syllable haue assigned their accent, wherby it is eyther lift vp, put downe, or strayned: calling the first an accente acute, the seconde graue, the thyrde circumflecte. 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 70 An acute accent..musically..is the regular eleuation of the finall words or syllables according to the custome of the Church. 1669 W. Holder Elem. Speech 99 The Acute accent raising the Voice in some certain Syllables,..and the Grave depressing it lower. 1768 A. Vieyra New Portuguese Gram. 218 A before e must be accentuated with the acute accent, and pronounced accordingly. 1874 R. Cleasby & G. Vigfusson Icelandic-Eng. Dict. (new ed.) 1/1 About 1770 the Icelanders resumed the spelling of Thorodd, marking diphthongal vowels by an acute accent. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 121 Seconds mark, a double acute accent is used for this purpose, thus ˝. 1960 W. K. Matthews Russ. Hist. Gram. ii. 42 The Russian form voróna..illustrates a shift of stress forward in the word, which is known as progressive metatony and is the outcome here of the greater energy of the acute accent as compared with that of the circumflex. 1994 A. M. Devine & L. D. Stephens Prosody of Greek Speech iii. 102 Recession of the Greek acute accent is constrained by the weight of the final syllable of the word. < as lemmas |
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