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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

분음부호

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bun-eum-bu-ho

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Dieresis/daɪˈɛr.ə.sɪs/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #28500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"분음부호는 두 모음을 따로 발음해야 함을 나타낸다."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A diacritical mark (two dots ¨) placed over a vowel to indicate that it is pronounced in a separate syllable rather than as part of a diphthong.

    "The word 'naïve' contains a dieresis to show that the i is pronounced separately from the a."
  2. 2

    In prosody, the division of a foot between two words, or a pause within a metrical foot.

    "Classical Greek poetry frequently employs a dieresis near the middle of the line."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the ancient Greek diairesis, meaning 'a dividing' or 'division', formed from dia- ('apart') and hairein ('to take'). Entering English via Latin in the 16th century, the term originally denoted the grammatical division of a diphthong into two separate vowels, later coming to refer specifically to the diacritic mark indicating this separation.

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