different between diaeresis vs aetheogam

English

Alternative forms

• diaresis, dieresis (American)
• diæresis (archaic)
• diaëresis (rare)

Etymology

From Late Latin diaeresis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diaíresis, “division, split”), from ??? (diá, “apart”) + ????? (hairé?, “I take”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /da?????s?s/, /da??????s?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /da?????s?s/

Noun

diaeresis (plural diaereses)

1. (orthography) A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive ones) indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in the English words naïve, Noël and Brontë, the French haïr and the Dutch ruïne.

   Synonym: trema

   Coordinate term: umlaut

2. (linguistics, prosody) Distraction; the separation of a vowel, often a diphthong, into two distinct syllables.
3. (prosody) A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot, in a line of verse.
4. (linguistics, prosody) Hiatus; the occurrence of separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables without an intervening consonant.

Usage notes

• The umlaut is an often visually identical diacritic which alters the sound of a single vowel (as in German schön). Properly speaking, the terms diaeresis and umlaut are not interchangeable, though speakers frequently use the term umlaut to refer to a diaeresis.

Translations

Further reading

• diaeresis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• diaeresis (diacritic) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• diaeresis (prosody) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• diaeresis, dieresis, diaresis at Google Ngram Viewer

Anagrams

• side raise

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ????????? (diaíresis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /di?ae?.re.sis/, [d?i?äe???s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di?e.re.sis/, [d?i?????s?is]

Noun

diaeresis f (genitive diaeresis or diaerese?s or diaeresios); third declension

1. (grammar) diaeresis (division of a diphthong into two vowels in consecutive syllables)
   • AD 98–138, Velius Longus (aut.), T.H.G. Keil (ed.), Liber de orthographia in Grammatici Latini VII (1880), p. 57, ll. 21–28:

   • circa AD 384, Ser. Honoratus (aut.), G. Thilo & H. Hagen (eds.), In Vergilii Aeneidos commentarii in Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii II (1884), bk vii, l. 464 (p. 160, ll. 1–9):

2. (rhetoric) distribution
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Julius Valerius Alexander Polemius to this entry?)
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Tyrannius Rufinus to this entry?)

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Synonyms

• (rhetoric: distribution): distrib?ti? (pure Latin)

Antonyms

• (grammar: diaeresis): synaeresis

References

• d?aer?sis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• d?ær?sis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 517/3
• “diaeresis” on page 535/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

English

Alternative forms

• aëtheogam

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (a?th?s, “unusual”) + ????? (gámos, “marriage”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?.??th??g?m, IPA^(key): /e??i??????æm/,

Noun

aetheogam (plural aetheogams)

1. (botany) A cryptogam; a plant of the obsolete taxonomic class Cryptogamia, having neither stamina nor pistils, and therefore no proper flowers, such as an alga, fern, fungus, lichen or moss.

Usage notes

• Being derived from the two vowels ?? (a?) (alpha-eta: a?), rather than the diphthong ?? (ai) (alpha-iota: ai), the initial ae- of aetheogam can only properly be written as two separate letters (ae), with a diaeresis atop the e (as aëtheogam) being optional; the spellings *ætheogam and *etheogam are, therefore, erroneous.

Synonyms

• cryptogam

Derived terms

• aetheogamous (botany)

References