diaeresis

Etymology
From, from , from +.

Noun

 * 1)  A diacritic (◌̈) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive ones) indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in the English words,  and , the French  and the Dutch.
 * 2)  Distraction; the separation of a vowel, often a diphthong, into two distinct syllables.
 * 3)  A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot, in a line of verse.
 * 4)  Hiatus; the occurrence of separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables without an intervening consonant.
 * 1)  A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot, in a line of verse.
 * 2)  Hiatus; the occurrence of separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables without an intervening consonant.

Usage notes

 * The umlaut is an often visually identical diacritic which alters the sound of a single vowel (as in German ). Properly speaking, the terms and  are not interchangeable, though speakers frequently use the term  to refer to a diaeresis.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 分音符號,
 * Czech: dvě tečky
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: dierezo, tremao
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German: ;
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: τρη̂μα
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: tvídepill
 * Irish: déiréis, idirphonc, ionnlach
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 分音記号, 分音符号, トレマ, ダイエリシス ,
 * Latin: diaeresis
 * Polish: dwie kropki, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,  , , две то́чки
 * Scottish Gaelic: dà-lid
 * Slovak: dve bodky
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: диерезис
 * Welsh: didolnod


 * Esperanto: dierezo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, Diäresis
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: διαίρεσις
 * Hungarian: dierézis
 * Latin: diaeresis
 * Portuguese:


 * Italian:
 * Korean:
 * Spanish:

Etymology
From the.

Noun

 * 1)   division of a diphthong into two vowels in consecutive syllables
 * 2) * AD 98–138, (aut.), T.H.G. Keil (ed.), Liber de orthographia in Grammatici Latini VII (1880), p. 57, ll. 21–28:
 * "la"

- sed et quidam in hac quoque scriptione voluerunt esse differentiam, ut pluralis quidem numeri nominativus casus per a et e scriberetur, genetivus vero singularis per a et i, hoc quoque argumentantes, quod diaeresis, sive dialysis illa dicetur, a nominativo plurali non fit, sed ex singulari obliquo, cum dicitur  ‘ a u l a i   i n   m e d i o ’  et //  d i v e s   e q u u m ,   d i v e s   p i c t a i   v e s t i s   e t   a u r i ,  // item rei nostrai, faciendai, magnai.


 * 1) * circa AD 384, Ser. Honoratus (aut.), G. Thilo & H. Hagen (eds.), In Vergilii Aeneidos commentarii in Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii II (1884), bk vii, l. 464 (p. 160, ll. 1–9):
 * "la"