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English
Verb
acuted
- simple past and past participle of acute
Adjective
acuted (not comparable)
- (linguistics, possessional) Of a written word: exhibiting acute accent.
- (linguistics) Of a pronounced word: exhibiting a language-specific type of pitch accent or tone characterized by an acute accent mark in the respective language transcription or orthography.
1866, C[harles] B[agot] Cayley, “IX.—On the Verification of Homeric Accentuation.”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, London, Berlin: Published for the Society by Asher & Co., , →OCLC, page 77:I do not suppose the Greeks altered the letters in exactly the same way, but rather that their acuted οί inclined toward the modern sound, or that the Ο was attenuated or altogether lost in it. The diphthong in unaccented syllables probably resembled the acuted rather than the circumflex; for before an enclitic it can only assume the acute accent.
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