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accent circonflexe

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French accent circonflexe.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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accent circonflexe n (plural accents circonflexes or accent circonflexes)

  1. (orthography) circumflex accent
    Coordinate terms: accent aigu, accent grave

Further reading

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French

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Etymology

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Latin accentus circumflexus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ak.sɑ̃ siʁ.kɔ̃.flɛks/
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Noun

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accent circonflexe m (plural accents circonflexes)

  1. circumflex (diacritic)
    Synonyms: circonflexe, (informal or childish) chapeau, chapeau pointu, petit chapeau
    Coordinate terms: accent aigu, accent grave

Usage notes

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  • The circumflex in Early Modern French indicated vowel length, which usually resulted from a lost s or e by way of compensatory lengthening. As most of these long vowels (except ô, in some accents â and ê) have since been shortened, it is now often said that the circumflex is used to represent those lost letters, but this is not its original purpose. Words in which a lost s did not cause lengthening do not have a circumflex (e.g. cette, chaque, notre).

Descendants

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  • Dutch: accent circonflexe
  • Norwegian Bokmål: accent circonflexe

Indonesian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Dutch accent circonflexe (circumflex) or French accent circonflexe (circumflex), from Latin accentus circumflexus.

Noun

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accent circonflexe (plural accent-accent circonflexe, first-person possessive accent circonflexeku, second-person possessive accent circonflexemu, third-person possessive accent circonflexenya)

  1. (orthography) circumflex accent

Further reading

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nb

Etymology

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Borrowed from French accent circonflexe.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /akˈsaŋ.sɪrkɔŋˈflɛks/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛks
  • Hyphenation: ac‧cent‧cir‧con‧flexe

Noun

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accent circonflexe m (definite singular accent circonflexen, indefinite plural accent circonflexer, definite plural accent circonflexene)

  1. (orthography) a circumflex (a diacritical mark (ˆ) placed over a vowel or a consonant in the orthography or transliteration of many languages)
    Synonym: cirkumfleks

See also

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