adjective
- of or relating to a diaeresis; involving the separation of two vowels that are normally pronounced as a single sound
Usage: linguistics, phonetics
Examples
- The dieretic pronunciation of 'naïve' separates the vowels into two distinct syllables.
- In dieretic notation, a diaeresis mark indicates where a vowel division occurs.
- Some languages use dieretic rules to clarify vowel pronunciation in borrowed words.