Di[ae]resis
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Diaeresis \Di*[ae]r"e*sis\, Dieresis \Di*er"e*sis\ (?; 277), n.;
pl. {Di[ae]reses} or {Diereses}. [L. diaeresis, Gr. ?, fr. ?
to divide; dia` through, asunder + ? to take. See {Heresy}.]
1. (Gram.) The separation or resolution of one syllable into
two; -- the opposite of syn[ae]resis.
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2. A mark consisting of two dots [[umlaut]], placed over the
second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to
be pronounced as distinct letters; as, co["o]perate,
a["e]rial.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "diaeresis":
Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer,
anacrusis, analysis, anapest, anatomy, antispast, arsis, bacchius,
beat, breakdown, cadence, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb,
chloriambus, colon, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl,
dactylic hexameter, dimeter, dipody, dissection, dochmiac, elegiac,
elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite,
feminine caesura, foot, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet,
hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic,
jingle, lilt, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent,
metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus,
mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period,
proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, quantity, resolution, rhythm, spondee,
sprung rhythm, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody,
tetraseme, thesis, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee
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