acento

From Latin accentus.

acento m (plural acentos)

1. accent (typographical line)
2. accent (variety of speech connected to a certain geographical region)

• acentuar

• “acento”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Borrowed from Esperanto akcento, English accent, French accent, German Akzent, Italian accento, Russian акце́нт (akcént), Spanish acento. Doublet of achento.

• IPA^(key): /aˈt͡sento/

acento (plural acenti)

1. accent (stress of voice, not written accent)

acentō

1. third-person plural future active imperative of aceō

Learned borrowing from Latin accentus.

• Homophone: assento
• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Hyphenation: a‧cen‧to

acento m (plural acentos)

1. (orthography) accent (mark to indicate accent)
2. stress (emphasis put on a syllable)

   Synonyms: tonicidade, ênfase

3. accent (voice inflection)

   Synonyms: tom, entonação, inflexão

4. accent (characteristic way of speaking, usually of a region)

   Synonym: sotaque

• acento agudo
• acento circunflexo
• acento grave

• til
• trema
• sotaque

From late Old Spanish accento, acento, borrowed from Latin accentus.

• IPA^(key): /aˈθento/ [aˈθẽn̪.t̪o] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /aˈsento/ [aˈsẽn̪.t̪o] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: a‧cen‧to

acento m (plural acentos)

1. accent (typographical line)

   Synonym: tilde

2. accent (variety of speech connected to a certain geographical region)

   Su acento me es casi imposible de entender.

   His accent is almost impossible for me to understand.

• “acento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024