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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cir•cum•flex /ˈsɜrkəmˌflɛks/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Phoneticsa mark ( ˆ, ˘, or ˜ ) placed over a vowel in some languages or phonetic systems to indicate that the vowel is pronounced with a particular quality or quantity.
See -flect-, -flex-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cir•cum•flex (sûr′kəm fleks′),USA pronunciation adj. - Linguistics, Phoneticsconsisting of, indicated by, or bearing the mark ˆ, ˘, or ~, placed over a vowel symbol in some languages to show that the vowel or the syllable containing it is pronounced in a certain way, as, in French, that the vowel so marked is of a certain quality and long, in Albanian, that the vowel is nasalized and stressed, or, in Classical Greek, that the syllable bears the word accent and is pronounced, according to the ancient grammarians, with a rise and fall in pitch.
- Linguistics, Phoneticspronounced with or characterized by the quality, quantity, stress, or pitch indicated by such a mark.
- bending or winding around.
n. - Linguistics, Phoneticsa circumflex mark or accent.
v.t. - to bend around.
- Latin circumflexus, equivalent. to circum- circum- + flexus, past participle of flectere to bend; see flex
- 1555–65
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: circumflex /ˈsɜːkəmˌflɛks/ n - a mark (^) placed over a vowel to show that it is pronounced with rising and falling pitch, as in ancient Greek, as a long vowel rather than a short one, as in French, or with some other different quality
adj - (of certain nerves, arteries, or veins) bending or curving around
Etymology: 16th Century: from Latin circumflexus, from circumflectere to bend around, from circum- + flectere to bendˌcircumˈflexion n |