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Trema vs Macron - What's the difference?

trema | macron |

As nouns the difference between trema and macron

is that trema is stage fright while macron is macron.

trema

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(tremata)
  • a diacritic consisting of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, used among other things to indicate umlaut or diaeresis.
    • The Trema''' is a diacritic that I have to add to the letter like an accent. So to catalog correctly your system has to offer you '''Trema and Umlaut. — Donald Pisani, [http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=MAPI.Id.0016.00627770692020203737363630303546%40MAPI.to.RFC822&output=gplain]
    If the tone is not falling, then a macron or trema is written above the vowel: màtö . — Rob Nierse, [http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9909D&L=conlang&P=R8167]

    Anagrams

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    macron

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (orthography) A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark () placed over any of various letters. It usually is used to indicate that the pronunciation of the vowel is long; in Mandarin pinyin (Chinese), it indicates the first tone, e.g. ch?z?ch?.
  • * 1986 : Peter V. Jones and Keith C. Sidwell, Reading Latin: Grammar, vocabulary and exercises'', Introduction — ''General notes (note 1), page 2 (22nd printing (2007); Cambridge University Press; ISBN 9780521286220)
    • All vowels are pronounced short'' unless marked with a ¯ (macron ) over them. So observe different vowel length of ‘''i''?’ in, e.g., ''f?lia , etc. It may be helpful, but is not essential, to mark macra in your exercises.

    Usage notes

    * The pronunciation is pronounced short, as ([a]). * Macra is a rare plural.

    Related terms

    * (l)

    See also

    * (wikipedia "macron") * breve * solidus * vinculum

    References

    * “ ?macron]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989 ----