diacritic

Noun

1. a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
   • Synonyms
     • diacritical mark
   • Less specific
     • mark
   • More specific
     • accent
     • accent mark
     • breve
     • cedilla
     • circumflex
     • hacek
     • wedge
     • macron
     • tilde
     • umlaut
     • dieresis
     • diaeresis
   • Related
     • diacritic
     • diacritical
     • diacritic
     • diacritical

Adjective

1. capable of distinguishing; “students having superior diacritic powers”; “the diacritic elements in culture”- S.F.Nadel
   • Synonyms
     • diacritical
   • Similar to
     • discriminating
   • Related
     • diacritical mark
     • diacritic
     • diacritical mark
     • diacritic

diacritic - LookUp

noun

1. Phonetics a sign, such as an accent or cedilla, which when written above or below a letter indicates a difference in pronunciation from the same letter when unmarked or differently marked

adjective

1. Phonetics (of a mark or sign) indicating a difference in pronunciation

Origin

late 17th century : from Greek diakritikos , from diakrinein distinguish , from dia- through + krinein to separate

Urban Dictionary

Diacritic: a mark, pointer, sign to distinguish from another form, to give a particular phonetic value

Diacritic: the diacritic on the words between similar spelling had been manually added over the page to modify a letter of the alphabet.