diaeresis

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: di=aer=e=sis

OXFORD DICTIONARY

diaeresis, n. (US dieresis) (pl. -ses)
1 a mark (as in na{iuml}ve) over a vowel to indicate that it is sounded separately.
2 Prosody a break where a foot ends at the end of a word.

Etymology

L f. Gk, = separation

THESAURUS

diaeresis

Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, analysis, anapest, anatomy, antispast, arsis, bacchius, beat, breakdown, cadence, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, dimeter, dipody, dissection, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, feminine caesura, foot, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic, jingle, lilt, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus, mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period, proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, quantity, resolution, rhythm, spondee, sprung rhythm, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee