Acute Accent Definition

noun

A mark (´) indicating:

American Heritage

A mark (´) used to indicate.

Webster's New World

(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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Other Word Forms of Acute Accent

Singular:

acute accent

Plural:

acute-accents

From Latin accentus (“accent”) acūtus (“sharp”), a calque of Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōdia, “accent”) ὀξύς (oxýs, “sharp”).

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Cognate to French accent aigu.

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