emphasis

English

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ἔμφασις (émphasis, “significance”), from ἐμφαίνω (emphaínō, “I present, I indicate”), from ἔν (én, “in”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I show”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛmfəsɪs/
• IPA^(key): [ˈɛɱfəsɪs], [ˈeɱfəsɪs], [ˈɛɱfəsəs], [ˈeɱfəsəs]

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Noun

emphasis (countable and uncountable, plural emphases)

1. Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.

   He paused for emphasis before saying who had won.

2. Special attention or prominence given to something.

   Anglia TV's emphasis is on Norwich and district.

3. Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.

   He used a yellow highlighter to indicate where to give emphasis in his speech.

4. (typography) Related to bold.
5. (phonology) The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants

Related terms

• emphasise, emphasize
• emphatic

Translations

special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important

• Arabic: تَرْكِيز‏‎ m (tarkīz)
• Bashkir: баҫым (baθïm)
• Belarusian: на́ціск m (nácisk)
• Bulgarian: акцент (bg) m (akcent), подчертаване (bg) n (podčertavane)
• Catalan: èmfasi f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 強調 (zh), 强调 (zh) (qiángdiào)

• Dutch: nadruk (nl) m
• Finnish: painotus (fi), painottaa (fi)
• French: accent (fr) m, emphase (fr) f
• Galician: énfase f

• German: Betonung (de) f, Nachdruck (de) m
• Greek: έμφαση (el) f (émfasi)
• Hungarian: nyomaték (hu)
• Irish: béim (ga)
• Japanese: 強調 (ja) (きょうちょう, kyōchō)
• Luxembourgish: Betounung f, Akzent m
• Portuguese: ênfase (pt) f
• Romanian: emfază (ro) f
• Russian: подчёркивание (ru) n (podčórkivanije), ударе́ние (ru) n (udarénije), осо́бое внима́ние n (osóboje vnimánije), акце́нт (ru) m (akcént)
• Scottish Gaelic: cudrom m
• Spanish: énfasis (es) m

special attention or prominence given to something

• Bashkir: баҫым (baθïm)
• Catalan: èmfasi f
• Dutch: benadrukking
• German: Emphase (de) f
• Greek: έμφαση (el) f (émfasi)

• Hungarian: hangsúly (hu)
• Japanese: 注目 (ja) (ちゅうもく, chūmoku), 重点 (ja) (じゅうてん, jyūten)
• Portuguese: ênfase (pt) f
• Romanian: emfază (ro) f
• Spanish: énfasis (es) m

prominence given to a syllable or words

• Bashkir: баҫым (baθïm)
• Belarusian: на́ціск m (nácisk)
• Bulgarian: ударение (bg) n (udarenie)
• Catalan: èmfasi f
• Czech: důraz m
• Dutch: klemtoon (nl) m, beklemtoning
• Finnish: paino (fi)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Betonung (de) f, Gewichtung f

• Greek: έμφαση (el) f (émfasi)
• Hungarian: hangsúly (hu)
• Japanese: 強調 (ja) (きょうちょう, kyōchō), 強勢 (きょうせい, kyōsei)
• Portuguese: ênfase (pt) f
• Romanian: emfază (ro) f
• Russian: ударе́ние (ru) n (udarénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: cudrom m
• Spanish: énfasis (es) m
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

(typography) related to bold

• Catalan: èmfasi f

• Japanese: 強調 (ja) (きょうちょう, kyōchō)

phonology

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: graisse f (4)

Anagrams

• misshape

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔμφασις (émphasis, “significance”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈem.pʰa.sis/

Noun

emphasis f (genitive emphasis); third declension

1. emphasis

References

• emphasis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “emphasis” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)