Masculine
accent
- (masculine) accent, manner or tone of speech
- (masculine) an accent symbol
- (masculine) accent, stress
- (masculine) strain, section
- (masculine) emphasis, focus
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ak.sɑ̃/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Middle French accent, from Old French acent, accent, borrowed from Latin accentus (“accent, tone, accentuation”).
stress-mark
speech pattern
broad accent
diacritic mark
signe diacritique
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