or di·aer·e·sis n., pl. -ses or -ses (-sēz').

1. Linguistics.
   1. A mark (¨) placed over the second of two adjacent vowels to indicate that they are to be pronounced as separate sounds rather than a diphthong, as in naïve.
   2. A mark (¨) placed over a vowel, such as the final vowel in Brontë, to indicate that the vowel is not silent.
2. Poetry. A break or pause in a line of verse that occurs when the end of a word and the end of a metrical foot coincide.

[Late Latin diaeresis, from Greek diairesis, from diairein, to divide : dia-, apart; see dia– + hairein, to take.]

diaeresis or dieresis [dy‐err‐ĕsis] (plural ‐eses), a Greek word for ‘division’, used in three different senses: (i) in classical prosody, the coincidence of a word ending with the end of a foot; (ii) the separation of two adjacent vowels into distinct sounds (e.g. Zoë, coöperate), also the umlaut mark which indicates this; (iii) in rhetoric, a figure by which the parts or attributes of anything are enumerated.

1. the division or separation of parts normally united.
2. the surgical separation of parts.

The pronunciation of two adjacent vowels as separate sounds rather than as a dipthong, as in coordinate; also, the mark indicating the separate pronunciation, as in na∩ve.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - trema, diærese

Nederlands (Dutch)
umlautsteken, afbreking waar einde van versvoet ook einde van woord is

Français (French)
n. - tréma, (Ling) diérèse

Deutsch (German)
n. - Trema, Trennpunkte

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - διαλυτικά (σημεία), (προσωδ.) διαίρεση

Italiano (Italian)
dieresi

Português (Portuguese)
n. - diérese (f), trema (m)

Русский (Russian)
диереза

Español (Spanish)
n. - diéresis, crema

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - språkv. trema

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
分音符号

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 分音符號

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 분음 기호, 절단

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 分切, 分音記号

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) علامه توضع فوق حرف عله إشارة إلى أنه يلفظ كمقطع مستقل عن حرف العله الذي يسبقه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮סימן מעל אות להבחנה בין תנועות‬

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