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Diaeresis

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Diaeresis (dieresis, diëresis) /dˈɛr[invalid input: 'ɨ']s[invalid input: 'ɨ']s/ may refer to:

  • Diaeresis (prosody), pronunciation of vowels in a diphthong separately, or the division made in a line of poetry when the end of a foot coincides with the end of a word
  • Diaeresis (linguistics), or hiatus, the separation of adjacent vowels into adjacent syllables, not separated by a consonant or pause and not merged into a diphthong
  • Diaeresis (diacritic), a diacritic consisting of two dots that marks disyllabicity
  • Diairesis, a term in Platonic and Stoic philosophy, the division of a genus into its parts