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🔊 Giving emphasis ✍️ Adding accent marks
accenting

accenting

5.9
To add marks above letters to show how to pronounce them
  • noun
  • /ˈæksɛntɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : acentuación
  • The editor checked the manuscript for correct accenting of French and Spanish proper names.

Examples

  • In typesetting, automated rules handle most accenting but manual fixes are often necessary for names.

  • In typesetting, automated rules handle most accenting of characters to ensure correct pronunciation.

  • Students practicing pronunciation benefited from careful accenting of vowels in the language exercise.

  • Don't forget about accenting!

  • The professor's lecture on accenting was very informative.

  • The editor checked the manuscript for correct accenting of French and Spanish proper names.

  • Students practicing pronunciation benefited from careful accenting of vowels during the language exercise.

Antonyms

omission
51 5.4

A thing someone leaves out, often by mistake

How Marked

accenting
  • Specialized
5.9

Surface Forms

accenting singular
accentings plural

Morphology

accenting = accent (transparent) = accent + ing

Derived by adding '-ing' to the verb 'accent' (to mark with an accent/diacritic); the meaning is the act of adding accent marks and is directly compositional.

Etymology

Accenting comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and cantus 'song', the same root behind chant, which helps you remember that accent marks are like little 'song' signs for words. So, accenting in writing means adding marks to show how to pronounce words correctly.