tečka

See also: tecka, Tecka, and TECKA

English

Etymology

From the Czech tečka (“dot, point, spot; period, full stop; tittle; dot (diacritic), tečka”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tĕchʹkə, IPA^(key): /ˈtɛt͡ʃkə/
• (UK) enPR: tĕchʹkă, IPA^(key): /ˈtɛt͡ʃka/

Noun

tečka (plural tečky)

1. (rare, only in reference to the diacritic’s historical use in Czech, superseded by the háček) A dot diacritic (used to mark consonantal palatalisation).
   • 1977, Folia Slavica, I-II, page 82:

     Unsystematic use of diacritics (the háček (ˇ), čárka (´), tečka (˙)) marks the Strahov copy…as no earlier than mid-15th century.

Coordinate terms

• (Czech diacritics): čárka (´), háček (ˇ), kroužek (˚), tečka (˙)

Translations

tečka diacritic — see dot

Czech

Etymology

Coined during Czech National Revival, based on Russian то́чка (tóčka), sharing origin with tknout, týkat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛt͡ʃka]

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Noun

tečka f (diminutive tečička)

1. dot, point, spot
2. period, full stop (at the end of a sentence)
3. tittle (such as over i and j)
4. dot (diacritic), tečka

Declension

Declension of tečka (hard feminine reducible)

	singular	plural
nominative	tečka	tečky
genitive	tečky	teček
dative	tečce	tečkám
accusative	tečku	tečky
vocative	tečko	tečky
locative	tečce	tečkách
instrumental	tečkou	tečkami

Derived terms

nouns

• dvojtečka
• trojtečka

Descendants

• English: tečka

See also

• bod
• interpunkce
• puntík

Further reading

• “tečka”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “tečka”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “tečka”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026