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circumflex::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | diacritic, diacritical mark |
Examples of circumflex
circumflex
The penult takes a circumflex if its vowel is long, and an acute if it is short.
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No one ever analyzes a-breve or g-circumflex in reliable, third-party sources.
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Sylvius was quite aware that the circumflex was purely a graphical convention.
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A stent was inserted into my circumflex artery to open a 90 percent blockage.
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The first-declension genitive plural always takes a circumflex on the last syllable.
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The French spelling, with the circumflex, was also used in English, but is now rare.
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Vowels with circumflex are considered separate letters from the base vowels.
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Linguistic interference sometimes accounts for the presence of a circumflex.
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The diacritic signs in use include the acute accent, grave accent and the circumflex.
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- A diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality
- The circumflex is a diacritic in the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts that is used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes. It received its English name from Latin circumflexus "bent around"u00A0u2013 a translation of the Greek u03C0u03B5u03C1u03B9u03C3u03C0u03C9u03BCu03ADu03BDu03B7 (perispu014Dmu00E9nu0113)...
- A diacritical mark ( resembling ^ ) placed over a vowel in certain languages to change its pronunciation; also used in combination with certain consonants in Esperanto to create additional letters; Having this mark; Curving around
- The character (^) entered in certain segments of numeric and derived searches in WorldCat to make searches more precise. Also known as a caret.
- Verb and adjective, Latin circum = around, and flexere = to bend, hence, bend or bent around.
- H9 perispwme/nh, -hj
