EuroLex/F/Circumflex accent

  • Original language: French
  • Original form and meaning: accent circonflexe - 1. a diacritic mark placed above a vowel to indicate the quality of pronunciation


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
Catalan ... ... '...' '...' ...
Croatian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch accent circumflex ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
English accent circumflex 16c

(from Latin)

'meaning 1

also used: "circumflex"'

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Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish ... ... '...' '...' ...
French (accent) circonflexe ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German Accent circonflexe ... 'meaning 1

in linguistics also "Zirkumflex"'

'...' ...
Hungarian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian circonflesso ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Polish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish circunflejo ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Swedish ... ... '...' '...' ...

Annotations

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It received its English name from Latin "circumflexus" (bent about) - a translation of the Greek περισπωμένη (perispomene).

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Information on Other Languages

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