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diacritic
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????????? (diakritikós, “distinguishing, separative”), from ?????????? (diakrínein, “to distinguish, separate”), from ??? (diá, “between”) + ????? (krín?, “I separate, distinguish”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /da???k??t?k/
Adjective
diacritic (comparative more diacritic, superlative most diacritic)
- distinguishing
- (orthography, not comparable) Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.
Synonyms
- diacritical
Translations
Noun
diacritic (plural diacritics)
- A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
Synonyms
- accent
- diacritical
- diacritical mark
Hyponyms
- cedilla
- diaeresis
- röck döts
- tilde
- umlaut
Derived terms
- diacritical
- diacritically
Translations
See also
- diacritic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- diacritic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- diacritic at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- triacidic
Romanian
Etymology
From French diacritique.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?di.a?kri.tik/
Adjective
diacritic m or n (feminine singular diacritic?, masculine plural diacritici, feminine and neuter plural diacritice)
- diacritic, diacritical
Declension
Noun
diacritic n (plural diacritice)
- diacritic
Declension
Synonyms
- semn diacritic n
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sicilicus
English
Etymology 1
From Latin.
Noun
sicilicus (plural sicilici)
- (Roman measurements) A unit of weight equal to one quarter of an uncia.
- 1830, Journal of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, volume 1, page 182:
- Both the pounds were therefore divided alike into 15 ores, that is, ounces; the ores into 4 skyllings, the sicilici of the Romans, and the skyllings into 4 pence by the Saxons, while the Danes used the mark of 20 skyllings, and the skylling of 2 mancuses.
- 1859, Sir William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 1213:
- UNCIA (?????, ??????, ??????), the twelfth part of the As or Libra, is derived by Varro from unus, as being the unit of the divisions of the as (L. L. v. 171, Müller). It was subdivided into 2 semunciae, 3 duellae, 4 sicilici, 6 sextulae, 24 scrupula, and 144 siliquae.
- 1830, Journal of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, volume 1, page 182:
Synonyms
- (Roman measurement): siclus
Etymology 2
From the Latin sicilicus, the diminutive form of sicilis (“sickle”), so named because of its falciformity.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?s??l?k?s, IPA(key): /s??s?l?k?s/
Noun
sicilicus (plural sicilici)
- (Old Latin typography) A diacritic, resembling a 180°-rotated ‘C’ (i.e., being similar in appearance to ? ? ?), written atop a consonant to mark gemination, superseded in Classical Latin by doubling the letter representing the geminated consonant.
- 1925, Sir John Edwin Sandys, A Companion to Latin Studies (3rd edition; Cambridge University Press), page 743:
- It is stated by grammarians that a sicilicus or laterally inverted ?, ?, was placed above a consonant which was to be regarded as a doubled letter.
- 1925, Sir John Edwin Sandys, A Companion to Latin Studies (3rd edition; Cambridge University Press), page 743:
See also
- sicilicus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive from s?c?lis (“sickle”) +? -icus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /si??ki?.li.kus/, [s?i??ki?l?k?s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /si?t??i.li.kus/, [si?t??i?likus]
Noun
s?c?licus m (genitive s?c?lic?); second declension
- a sicilicus (a unit of weight equal to one quarter of an uncia)
- (by extension) any other units that are 1/48 of another unit of measurement
- one forty-eighth of a jugerum
- the forty-eight part of an hour
- a quarter of an inch
- (grammar) a comma
- a sign designating the doubling of consonants
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Related terms
- s?c?licula
- s?c?limenta
- s?c?li?
- s?c?lis
Descendants
- English: sicilicus
References
- sicilicus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sicilicus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- sicilicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- sicilicus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sicilicus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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