diacritic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: diacritic	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for diacritic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
diacritic adj capable of distinguishing; "students having superior diacritic powers"; "the diacritic elements in culture"- S.F.Nadel Synonym(s): diacritic, diacritical n a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation Synonym(s): diacritical mark, diacritic
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Diacritic \Di`acrit"ic\, Diacritical \Di`acrit"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] to separate, distinguish; dia` through + [?] to separate. See {Critic}.] That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, [be], [acr], [84], [omac], [ocr], etc. [bd]Diacritical points.[b8] --Sir W. Jones. A glance at this typography will reveal great difficulties, which diacritical marks necessarily throw in the way of both printer and writer. --A. J. Ellis.