different between cadence vs accent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French cadence, from Italian cadenza, from Latin *cadentia, form of cad?ns, form of cad? (“I fall, I cease”), from Proto-Italic *kad?, from Proto-Indo-European *?ad- (“to fall”). Doublet of cadenza and chance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ke?.dn?s/

Noun

cadence (countable and uncountable, plural cadences)

1. The act or state of declining or sinking.
2. Balanced, rhythmic flow.
3. The measure or beat of movement.
4. The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
5. (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
6. (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
7. (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
8. (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.

   The cadence in a galliard step refers to the final leap in a cinquepace sequence.

9. (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
10. (running) The number of steps per minute.
11. (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
12. (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
13. (heraldry) cadency
14. (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
15. (software engineering) The frequency of regular product releases.

Synonyms

• (musical conclusion): clausula

Derived terms

Related terms

• cadaver

Translations

See also

• Tierce de Picardie

Verb

cadence (third-person singular simple present cadences, present participle cadencing, simple past and past participle cadenced)

1. To give a cadence to.
2. To give structure to.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.d??s/

Etymology 1

From Middle French cadence, borrowed from Italian cadenza. Doublet of chance.

Noun

cadence f (plural cadences)

1. cadence

Derived terms

• cadencer

Etymology 2

Verb

cadence

1. first-person singular present indicative of cadencer
2. third-person singular present indicative of cadencer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cadencer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cadencer
5. second-person singular imperative of cadencer

Further reading

• “cadence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English accent, from Middle French accent, from Old French acent, from Latin accentus, past participle of accin? (“sing to, sing along”). The word accent had been borrowed into Old English already, but was lost and reborrowed in Middle English.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?k?s?nt, IPA^(key): /?ak.s?nt/
• (US) enPR: ?k?s?nt, IPA^(key): /?æk.s?nt/

Noun

accent (countable and uncountable, plural accents)

1. (linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.

2. (figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.

3. (orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.

5. Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, King Lear, II-ii

     I know, sir, I am no flatterer: he that beguiled you in a plain accent was a plain knave; which for my part I will not be, though I should win your displeasure to entreat me to 't.

   • 1696, Matthew Prior, "From Celia to Damon", in Poems on Several Occasions

     The tender Accent of a Woman's Cry / Will pass unheard, will unregarded die;
6. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.

7. (linguistics, sign languages) A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does not normally use a certain sign language might have when using it.
   • 2015 December 3, [./http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-12-03/philadelphia-accent-sign-language There's a distinctly Philadelphia accent in American Sign Language]
8. A word; a significant tone or sound.
9. (usually plural only) Expressions in general; speech.

   • Winds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear, / Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear.

10. (prosody, poetry) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
11. (music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
12. (music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
13. (music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
14. (music) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.

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15. (music) A mark used to represent specific stress on a note.
16. (mathematics) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y''.
17. (geometry) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc., as in 12' 27'', meaning twelve minutes and twenty-seven seconds.
18. (engineering) A mark used to denote feet and inches, as in 6' 10'', meaning six feet ten inches.
19. Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.
20. A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
21. A distinctive feature or quality.
22. (archaic) Utterance.

Usage notes

The word "accent" is often used specifically to refer to manners of speech that differ significantly from the local standard or one's personal speech.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• circumflex

References

• “Accent, sb.” on pages 50–51 of § 1 (A) of volume I (A–B, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray?, 1888) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)
• “accent, n.” in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989)

Etymology 2

From Middle French accenter, from Old French accenter, from Latin accent?, from accentus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?k-s?nt?, IPA^(key): /æk?s?nt/
• (US) enPR: ?k-s?nt?, ?k?s?nt, IPA^(key): /æk?s?nt/, /?æk.s?nt/

Verb

accent (third-person singular simple present accents, present participle accenting, simple past and past participle accented)

1. (transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
2. (transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.
3. (transitive) To mark with written accents.

Translations

References

• “Accent, v.” on page 51/3 of § 1 (A) of volume I (A–B, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray?, 1888) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)
• “accent, v.” in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin accentus.

Noun

accent m (plural accents)

1. accent

Derived terms

• accent agut
• accent greu

Related terms

• accentuar

Further reading

• “accent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Danish

Etymology 1

From French accentus, from Latin accentus, a calque of Ancient Greek ???????? (pros?idía, “prosody, accent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????s??]

Noun

accent c (singular definite accenten, plural indefinite accenter)

1. accent (a voice influenced by dialect or another language)
2. accent (a mark on a letter (like grave or acute))

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Latin accentus, a calque of Ancient Greek ???????? (pros?idía, “prosody, accent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????s?n?d?]

Noun

accent c (singular definite accenten, plural indefinite accenter)

1. (linguistics) accent (stress or a pitch in articulation)
2. accent (emphasis)
3. accent (a mark on a letter (like grave or acute))

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch accent, ultimately from Latin accentus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?s?nt/
• Hyphenation: ac?cent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

accent n (plural accenten, diminutive accentje n)

1. (linguistics) accent (distinctive pronunciation of a language; phonetic and phonological aspects of a lect)
2. A notably deviant or disprivileged pronunciation of a language.
3. (linguistics) accent (contrasting articulation to express emphasis)
4. (orthography) accent (symbol to indicate spoken accent or the nature of a vowel)

   Synonym: accentteken

5. (music) accent (stress or emphasis)
6. (music) A mark that indicates musical accent.

   Synonym: accentteken

Derived terms

• accentteken

Related terms

• accentueren

Descendants

• Afrikaans: aksent
• ? Indonesian: aksen

French

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) 

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak.s??/

Noun

accent m (plural accents)

1. accent, manner or tone of speech
2. (linguistics) an accent symbol
3. (linguistics) accent, stress
4. (music) strain, section

Derived terms

• accent aigu
• accent circonflexe
• accent grave
• mettre l'accent sur

Descendants

• ? Norwegian Bokmål: accent
• ? Turkish: aksan

Further reading

• “accent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

From Old French acent, from Latin accentus, from ad + cantus (“song”).

Noun

accent m (plural accents)

1. (linguistics) accent, stress

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French accent (“accent, manner or tone of speech”), from Middle French accent, from Old French acent, from Latin accentus (“accent, tone, accentuation”), past participle of accin? (“sing to, sing along”), from ad- +? can? (“sing”), a calque of Ancient Greek ???????? (pros?idía, “song sung to music; pronunciation of syllable”), from ???? (prós, “to”) + ??? (?id?, “song”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak?sa?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Hyphenation: ac?cent
• Homophone: aksent

Noun

accent

1. Alternative spelling of aksent (“accent”)
2. Only used in accent aigu (“acute accent”)
3. Only used in accent circonflexe (“circumflex”)
4. Only used in accent grave (“grave accent”)

References

• “accent” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Old English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin accentus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k.kent/

Noun

accent m

1. (phonology) accent

Declension

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “accent”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “accent”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Romanian

Etymology

From French accent

Noun

accent n (plural accente)

1. emphasis
2. accent

Declension

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a(k)?s?nt/

Noun

accent (plural accents)

1. accent

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin accentus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak??s?n?t/, /ak??sa??/

Noun

accent c

1. an accent, an emphasis, a stress (in articulation)
2. an accent, a mark on a letter (grave or acute)
3. an accent, a voice influenced by dialect or another language

Declension