Noun: apostrophe
| Singular | apostrophe |
| Plural | apostrophes |
Sample Sentences
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Since its inception the apostrophe has been a controversial piece of punctuation. [2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 30:]
Nouns inflected like apostrophe
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French apostrophe, or Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (apóstrophos, “accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “to turn away”), from ἀπό (apó, “away from”) + στρέφω (stréphō, “to turn”). See: French Nouns '
apostrophe', Latin Nouns '
apostrophus'.