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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δῐᾰκρῐτῐκός (diakritikós).
Adjective
diacriticus (feminine diacritica, neuter diacriticum); first/second-declension adjective
- (New Latin) diacritic
1788, Bibliothecæ Casanatensis Ordinis Prædicatorum Catalogus Librorum Rypis Impressorum, page 20:Liber Diacriticus de Muſurgia antiquo - moderna, in qua de varia utriuſque Muſicæ ratione diſputatur.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1840, Gustav Seyffarth, Alphabeta Genuina Aegyptiorum: Numeris Ipsorum Hieroglyphicis, Hieraticis Demoticisque Conservata: Nec Non Asianorum Literis Persarum, Medorum Assyriorumque Cuneoformibus, Zendicis, Pehlvicis et Sanscritis Subiecta, page 84:Constat enim, [] esse literam adspiratam siue diacriticam pro [] leni, vti circellus diacriticus quoque docet; quare [] ad [] quemadmodum [] ad referri debet.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1866, Joanne Bapt. Wenig, Schola Syriaca Complectens Chrestomathiam cum Apparatu Grammatico et Lexicon Chrestomatiae Accomodatum, page 39:Praeterea Imperativi conjug. Ethpaal, Ethtafal et Eschtafal duae formae obveniunt: altera, quae linea diacritica sub med. radicali notatur, et altera, quae a Praeterito non differt.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.