diaeresis

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See also: diæresis and diaëresis

English

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Etymology

From Late Latin diaeresis, from Ancient Greek διαίρεσις (diaíresis, “division, split”), from διά (diá, “apart”) + αἱρέω (hairéō, “I take”).

Pronunciation

Noun

diaeresis (plural diaereses)

  1. (orthography) A diacritic (◌̈) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive ones) indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in the English words naïve, Noël and Brontë, the French haïr and the Dutch ruïne.
    Synonym: trema
    Coordinate term: umlaut
  2. (linguistics, prosody) Distraction; the separation of a vowel, often a diphthong, into two distinct syllables.
  3. (prosody) A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot, in a line of verse.
  4. (linguistics, prosody) Hiatus; the occurrence of separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables without an intervening consonant.

Usage notes

  • The umlaut is an often visually identical diacritic which alters the sound of a single vowel (as in German schön). Properly speaking, the terms diaeresis and umlaut are not interchangeable, though speakers frequently use the term umlaut to refer to a diaeresis.

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Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek δῐαίρεσῐς (diaíresis).

Pronunciation

Noun

diaeresis f (genitive diaeresis or diaereseōs or diaeresios); third declension

  1. (grammar) diaeresis (division of a diphthong into two vowels in consecutive syllables)
    • AD 98–138, Velius Longus (aut.), T.H.G. Keil (ed.), Liber de orthographia in Grammatici Latini VII (1880), p. 57, ll. 21–28:
      sed et quidam in hac quoque scriptione voluerunt esse differentiam, ut pluralis quidem numeri nominativus casus per a et e scriberetur, genetivus vero singularis per a et i, hoc quoque argumentantes, quod diaeresis, sive dialysis illa dicetur, a nominativo plurali non fit, sed ex singulari obliquo, cum dicitur  ‘ a u l a i   i n   m e d i o ’  et //  d i v e s   e q u u m ,   d i v e s   p i c t a i   v e s t i s   e t   a u r i ,  // item rei nostrai, faciendai, magnai.
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    • circa AD 384, Ser. Honoratus (aut.), G. Thilo & H. Hagen (eds.), In Vergilii Aeneidos commentarii in Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii II (1884), bk vii, l. 464 (p. 160, ll. 1–9):
      Fvrit intvs aqvai fvmidvs id est aquae amnis: nec inmerito; nam potest esse et alterius rei amnis, “ut fluvios videt ille cruoris”. Hanc autem diaeresin Tucca et Varius fecerunt: nam Vergilius sic reliquerat “furit intus aquae amnis” et “exuberat amnis”: quod satis asperum fuit. Notandum quod in toto Vergilio non reperiuntur nisi quattuor diaereses, hoc loco, et in tertio ⟨354⟩, ut “aulai medio libabant pocula Bacchi”, et in VI. ⟨747⟩ ut “aurai simplicis ignem”, et in IX. ⟨26⟩ “dives pictai vestis et auri”.
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  2. (rhetoric) distribution
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Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative diaeresis diaeresēs
diaereseis
Genitive diaeresis
diaereseōs
diaeresios 		diaeresium
Dative diaeresī diaeresibus
Accusative diaeresim
diaeresin
diaeresem1 		diaeresēs
diaeresīs
Ablative diaeresī
diaerese1 		diaeresibus
Vocative diaeresis
diaeresi 		diaeresēs
diaereseis

1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

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