dieretic

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English

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Adjective

dieretic (comparative more dieretic, superlative most dieretic)

  1. (linguistics) Featuring diaeresis.
    The word create is dieretic, whereas creature is synaeretic.
  2. Written with a diaeresis.
    Some words have many spellings: Take, for example, coordinate, which also has a hyphenated spelling variant — co-ordinate — and a dieretic one, coördinate.

Usage notes

The words dieretic and diuretic can sound alike depending on a speaker's accent.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French diérétique.

Adjective

dieretic m or n (feminine singular dieretică, masculine plural dieretici, feminine and neuter plural dieretice)

  1. (dated) corrosive

Declension