Greek, a stress accent has replaced the pitch accent, and the acute marks the stressed syllable of a word. The Greek name of the accented syllable was and...

The double acute accent (◌̋) is a diacritic mark of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It is used primarily in Hungarian or Chuvash, and consequently it is...

Some diacritics, such as the acute ⟨ó⟩, grave ⟨ò⟩, and circumflex ⟨ô⟩ (all shown above an 'o'), are often called accents. Diacritics may appear above...

serang (without the acute) means "to attack," whereas Sérang (with the acute) is the provincial capital of Banten. In Irish the acute accent (fada) marks a...

28th letter of the Slovak alphabet. It represents /oː/. In Dutch, the acute Ó accent is used to mark different meanings for words, for example voor and vóór...

(tónos) 'accent') is the standard system for Ancient Greek and Medieval Greek. The acute accent (´), the circumflex (ˆ), and the grave accent (`) indicate...

The grave accent first appeared in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek to mark a lower pitch than the high pitch of the acute accent. In modern...

syllable as the pitch accent in ancient Greek. The ancient Greek grammarians indicated the word-accent with three diacritic signs: the acute (ά), the circumflex...

the acute accent is generated by a combination of the Alt+⇧+&, keys, followed by the vowel. In the Belgian AZERTY layout, a vowel with an acute accent can...

all polysyllables are written with an acute accent (´) over the vowel of the stressed syllable. (The acute accent is also used on some monosyllables in...