tilde

Etymology
Borrowed from, from or from. . Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun



 * 1) The grapheme of character ~.
 * 2) A diacritical mark  placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation, such as by palatalization in Spanish words or nasalization in Portuguese words.
 * 3) A tone mark placed above a vowel in Vietnamese to indicate a creaky rising tone.
 * 4) A punctuation mark that indicates range (from a number to another number).
 * 5) May be used to represent approximation (mathematics).
 * 6)  The character used to represent negation, usually ~ or ¬.
 * 1)  The character used to represent negation, usually ~ or ¬.

Usage notes
Commonly used for these letters: ã and õ (Portuguese), and ñ (Spanish); Vietnamese, Guaraní etc. use it for several other letters.

Translations

 * Arabic: تِلْدَة
 * Bulgarian: тилда
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ∼,, , 波浪符, 波形號
 * Czech: vlnovka, tilda
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: tildo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Macedonian: ти́лда
 * Maori: tire
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: ти́льда
 * Vietnamese: dấu mềm
 * Welsh: tild


 * Vietnamese:


 * Czech: vlnovka
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Macedonian: ти́лда
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: ти́льда
 * Vietnamese: dấu sóng
 * Welsh: tild


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Interlingua:

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) tilde

Noun

 * 1) tilde

Noun

 * 1) tilde

Noun

 * 1)  (all senses)
 * , squiggle

Etymology 1
or from, possibly through an Old Catalan or Old Provençal intermediate (accounting for the final -e instead of -o).

Noun

 * 1) accent mark, i.e. acute accent
 * 2) criticism, censure
 * 1) criticism, censure
 * 1) criticism, censure
 * 1) criticism, censure

Usage notes

 * In Spanish, the term tilde refers to a diacritic in general (including the tilde on top of ñ) but it is primarily used to designate the acute accent, as in á. The term is used to specifically refer to the tilde on top of ñ.

Etymology
, with.

Noun

 * 1) accent mark
 * 1) accent mark

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) tilde