different between diacritic vs virama

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)

1. distinguishing
2. (orthography, not comparable) Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.

Synonyms

• diacritical

Translations

Noun

diacritic (plural diacritics)

1. 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)

1. diacritic, diacritical

Declension

Noun

diacritic n (plural diacritice)

1. diacritic

Declension

Synonyms

• semn diacritic n

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ????? (vir?ma, “to stop”).

Noun

virama (plural viramas)

1. A diacritic used in most writing systems of the Indian subcontinent to signify the lack of an inherent vowel.
   • a Devanagari example: ? (ka) + ? = ?? (k)
2. A sign which serves the same purpose in any writing system.

Synonyms

• halant
• killer
• vowel killer

Translations

See also

• anusvara
• candrabindu
• sukun / sukuun
• visarga