tonos

Etymology
From the Modern. .

Noun

 * 1)  The  stress-marking : ⟨ &#900; ⟩, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed.

Usage notes

 * The tonos is also used to distinguish some homographic monosyllables; for example:, the feminine definite article, and , the conjunction “or”. In such cases, the tonos does not reflect a difference in stress.
 * When combined with the, the tonos is written between that diacritic’s two dots, as: ⟨ &#901; ⟩.
 * As a compromise of forms between the Ancient Greek and, the tonos was designed as a vertical bar (similar to ⟨  ⟩, the IPA primary-stress marker); however, in most cases, it and the oxia both take the form of the Latin-script : ⟨ &#180; ⟩.

Translations

 * Greek: