accent

Meaning

1. accent, manner or tone of speech
2. an accent symbol
3. accent, stress
4. strain, section
5. emphasis, focus

Concepts

accent

stress

emphasis

accent mark

stress-mark

supersign

accentuation

diacritic mark

circumflex

broad accent

inflection

intonation

modulation

pronunciation

voice

accentuate

vehemence

speech pattern

dialect

idiom

focus

sound

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ak.sɑ̃/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French accent, from Old French acent, accent, borrowed from Latin accentus (“accent, tone, accentuation”).

Sentences

Il a pour particularité un accent occitan qui ne le quittera jamais .

His particularity is an Occitan accent that will never leave him.

Elle n’est pas à confondre avec le Ú̱, U accent aigu macron souscrit .

It is not to be confused with the Ú і, U macron undersigned acute accent.