Acute accent

The acute accent ( ´ ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin script. The word acute is derived from the Latin acutus ("sharp"), itself a borrowing of the Greek {{polytonic|????}} (oxýs).

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Diacritic - Alphabet - Latin script - Latin - Borrowing - Greek

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