dierezo

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dieˈrezo/
  • Rhymes: -ezo
  • Hyphenation: di‧e‧re‧zo

Noun

dierezo (accusative singular dierezon, plural dierezoj, accusative plural dierezojn)

  1. (orthography) dieresis, a diacritic mark ( ¨ ) placed over the second of two consecutive vowels to indicate that the second vowel is to be pronounced separately.

Usage notes

Two dots over a vowel ( ¨ ) indicates a dieresis in some languages, and an umlaut in others. The diacritical mark itself is called surdupunkto.

See also

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