acute accent

English

Etymology

From Latin accentus (“accent”) acūtus (“sharp”), a calque of Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōidía, “accent”) ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp”).

Cognate to French accent aigu.

Noun

acute accent (plural acute accents)

1. (orthography): A diacritical mark ( ´ ) that can be placed above a number of letters in many languages of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic writing systems.

Synonyms

• čárka (only when used in Czech)
• fada (only when used in Irish)

Translations

acute accent

• Arabic: نَبْرَة حَادَّة‏‎ f (nabra ḥādda)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尖音符 (jiānyīnfú)

• Czech: čárka (cs) f
• Estonian: rõhumärk, akuut
• Finnish: akuuttiaksentti, akuutti (fi)
• French: accent aigu (fr) m
• German: Akut (de) m
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: broddur (is), broddur yfir bókstöfum
• Irish: síneadh fada m, agúid f
• Italian: accento acuto
• Japanese: アキュート・アクセント (akyūto-akusento)

• Navajo: zhítsʼóóz
• Polish: akcent ostry m, akcent akutowy m, akut (pl) m
• Portuguese: acento agudo (pt) m
• Russian: аку́т (ru) m (akút), окси́я (ru) f (oksíja), о́строе ударе́ние (ru) n (óstroje udarénije)
• Slovak: dĺžeň, ostrý prízvuk m
• Slovene: ostrivec (sl) m
• Spanish: acento agudo m
• Swedish: akut accent (sv)
• Tagalog: tuldik na pahilis
• Turkish: tiz vurgu
• Ukrainian: акут (uk) m (akút)
• Vietnamese: dấu sắc (vi)

Derived terms

• double acute accent

See also

• apex
• čárka
• circumflex
• grave accent
• kreska

Anagrams

• accent acute