inverted circumflex

短语

词形变化

inverted circumflexes 复数 inverted circumflexes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A dipping tone.

    语言学

    Mr. Walker does triumphantly claim the discovery of the inverted circumflex accent, or the downward and upward continued movement. […] Greek and Roman writers tell us, indefinitely, of the acute, grave, and circumflex movements; and these, with the newly described inverted circumflex, have, at a recent date, first been formally regarded, in the art of speaking the English language.

  2. 2.

    Any diacritic obtained by rotating a circumflex (ˆ) 180°.

    媒体 印刷
  3. 3.

    A háček.

    非正式

词源

From its earliest attested use as an idiomatic phrase in 1810, inverted circumflex was first used to denote a dipping tone — an inversion of the peaking tone denoted by ⟨῀⟩, the Ancient Greek περισπωμένη (perispōménē), commonly translated as “circumflex” — thence the name was applied to diacritics which marked such a dipping tone and, by extension, other tones to which it was suited; finally, due to such a diacritic’s resemblance to the háček, the name came to be applied to it as well.

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