acento

Galician

Etymology

From Latin accentus.

Noun

acento m (plural acentos)

1. accent (typographical line)
2. accent (variety of speech connected to a certain geographical region)

Related terms

• acentuar

Further reading

• “acento” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto akcento, English accent, French accent, German Akzent, Italian accento, Russian акце́нт (akcént), Spanish acento. Doublet of achento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈt͡sento/

Noun

acento (plural acenti)

1. accent (stress of voice, not written accent)

Derived terms

• acentizar (“to accent, lay stress on”)
• acentizo (“accentuation”)
• acentizuro (“accentuation”)
• neacentizita (“unaccented”)
• senacenta (“unaccented”)

 

Latin

Verb

acentō

1. third-person plural future active imperative of aceō

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin accentus.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈsẽ.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈsẽ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈsẽ.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈsẽ.tu/

• Homophone: assento
• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Hyphenation: a‧cen‧to

Noun

acento m (plural acentos)

1. (orthography) accent (mark to indicate accent)

Derived terms

• acento agudo
• acento circunflexo
• acento grave

See also

• til
• trema
• sotaque

Spanish

Etymology

From late Old Spanish accento, acento, borrowed from Latin accentus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aˈθento/ [aˈθẽn̪.t̪o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /aˈsento/ [aˈsẽn̪.t̪o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: a‧cen‧to

Noun

acento m (plural acentos)

1. accent (typographical line)

   Synonym: tilde

2. accent (variety of speech connected to a certain geographical region)

   Su acento me es casi imposible de entender.

   His accent is almost impossible for me to understand.

Derived terms

• acento agudo
• acento grave
• poner el acento

 

Related terms

• acentual
• acentuar

 

Further reading

• “acento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014