macron

ma·cron  (mkrn, -krn, mkrn)

n.

1. A diacritical mark placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound or phonetic value in pronunciation, such as () in the word make.

2. The horizontal mark ( ¯ ) used to indicate a stressed or long syllable in a foot of verse.

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[Greek makron, from neuter of makros, long; see mk- in Indo-European roots.]

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macron [ˈmækrɒn]

n

(Linguistics / Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) (Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) a diacritical mark (¯) placed over a letter, used in prosody, in the orthography of some languages, and in several types of phonetic respelling systems, to represent a long vowel

[from Greek makron something long, from makros long]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

macron - a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound diacritic, diacritical mark - a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation

Translations

macron

n (Typ) → Querbalken m, → Längezeichen nt