单词 | e acute |
释义 | > as lemmase acute c. Usually as postmodifier. Of a vowel letter: marked with an acute accent, as e acute (é; originally in French indicating a close sound of e). Hence of a vowel: having a close sound. ΚΠ 1730 C. Arnoux Parallels of Sounds French & Eng. Langs. p. vj Sometimes, that e has the sound of the é acute, tho' it has no accent. 1750 L. Chambaud Gram. French Tongue i. 21 é acute. This e that has the sound of a in fate, should always be marked over with an acute. 1769 L. Chambaud Gram. French Tongue (ed. 5) 38 o. This vowel receives two sounds..; the one acute, slender, and commonly short; and the other grave, broad, and always long. 1874 A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. IV. iv. x. 1048/1 He says that others use the circumflex â, employing the grave for his á acute or short accent. 1887 W. D. Whitney Pract. Fr. Gram. i. 3 In spelling, the accent should always be mentioned along with the vowel to which it belongs: thus, été is ‘e acute, t, e acute’. 1892 tr. R. P. Mansion Man. Pronunc in A. Dufour Fr. Gram. ii. 137 Au is sounded as o acute: In cauchemar.., mauvais. 1922 J. S. Galland Fr. Composition & Gram. Rev. iii. 109 Here the é (acute e) is always retained in spelling, but the pronunciation in regularly è (grave e). 2001 G. Nelson Inform Designer's Man. (ed. 4) v. 260 In the case of French, we might write: Zcharacter ’@’e’ ; ! E-acute. < as lemmas |
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