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From Latin accentus (“accent”) acūtus (“sharp”), a calque of Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōidía, “accent”) ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp”).
Cognate to French accent aigu.
acute accent (plural acute accents)
- (orthography): A diacritical mark ( ´ ) that can be placed above a number of letters in many languages of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic writing systems.
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acute accent
- Arabic: نَبْرَة حَادَّة f (nabra ḥādda)
- Armenian:
- Old Armenian: սուր (sur)
- Catalan: accent agut m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 尖音符 (jiānyīnfú)
- Czech: čárka (cs) f
- Esperanto: dekstra korno, akuto
- Estonian: rõhumärk, akuut
- Finnish: akuuttiaksentti, akuutti (fi)
- French: accent aigu (fr) m
- Galician: acento agudo m
- German: Akut (de) m
- Greek: οξεία (el) f (oxeía)
- Ancient: ὀξεῖα f (oxeîa)
- Hungarian: éles ékezet
- 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)
- Korean: 양음 부호 (yang'eum buho)
- Navajo: zhítsʼóóz
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: akutt (no) m, akutt aksent m, akutt-tegn n, accent aigu m
- 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: tilde (es) f, acento agudo m
- Swedish: akut accent (sv)
- Tagalog: tuldik na pahilis
- Turkish: tiz vurgu
- Ukrainian: аку́т (uk) m (akút)
- Vietnamese: dấu sắc (vi)
- Welsh: acen ddyrchafedig f
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