trema
IPA: trˈɛmʌ
noun
- A diacritic consisting of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, used among other things to indicate umlaut or diaeresis.
- "an initial phase in the psychotic process that is characterized by intense anguish, an experience of hostility and a feeling of imminent catastrophe".
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Examples of "trema" in Sentences
- "'Io trema' (I replied out of the same opera) -- 'Io trema -- di te!'"
- Similamente operando all 'artista ch' a l'abito dell 'arte e man che trema.
- Probably because of that strange little trema (a French kind of umlaut or diaeresis) over the "e".
- I always need something like a "smaller than" symbol or a "trema" symbol (double dot), so I alternate.
- The difference is that a trema disappears when the word is hyphenated at that specific letter, while an umlaut would stay.
- My X-trema cookware pots -- my mom sent them to me for Christmas, and now I use them for everything; sautéing, baking, and boiling!
- For example, when you are in babel's dutch language mode you can write twee "en in which" is a trema, which is not equivalent to twee\ "en, which is then (actually always) specifically an umlaut.
- Hallelujah for script that schizophrenically mixes upper and lower case, and for the two dot umlaut-like trema over the i, and the acute accent mark over the final e in the word naïveté, and for the proper use of the word capitol, which has but a single proper use.
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