Noun: acute accent
| Singular | acute accent |
| Plural | acute accents |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like acute accent
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
1. From Latin accentus (“accent”) acūtus (“sharp”), a calque of Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōidía, “accent”) ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp”).
2. Cognate to French accent aigu. See: Latin Nouns '
accentus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
προσῳδία', French Nouns '
accent aigu'.