Translingual

Diacritical mark

`

1. A grave accent.
2. (linguistics) Used to indicate low tone.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with an acute accent: ´

Punctuation mark

`

1. (computing) A backquote or backtick, which, like a quotation mark, encloses text.
2. (nonstandard, Internet) An apostrophe (')

See also

• ʻ

Catalan

Diacritical mark

`

1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called accent greu ‎(“grave accent”) in Catalan, and found on À/à, È/è and Ò/ò.

Usage notes

The grave accent indicates that an open-mid or open vowel is pronounced stressed. Stressed close-mid or close vowels are indicated with an acute accent ´.

Dutch

Diacritical mark

`

1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called accent grave ‎(“grave accent”) in Dutch, and found on À/à and È/è.

Usage notes

The grave accent is used mostly in French loanwords, and serves primarily to distinguish the rare vowel /ɛː/ from the more usual /eː/.

French

Diacritical mark

`

1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called accent grave ‎(“grave accent”) in French, and found on À/à, È/è and Ù/ù.

Italian

Diacritical mark

`

1. grave accent

Portuguese

Diacritical mark

`

1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called acento grave ‎(“grave accent”) in Portuguese, and found on À/à.
   1. Used in a number of contractions: a + a = à; a + aquele = àquele (variations include: àquela, àqueles, àquelas, àquilo).
2. (obsolete) Additionally, the same diacritical mark has had other uses in the past.
   1. Replaces the acute accent in derivatives where the primary stress becomes the secondary stress: café → cafèzinho (now cafezinho).
   2. Alternative form of ´: serà (now será)

Romansch

Diacritical mark

`

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Vietnamese

Diacritical mark

`

1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called dấu huyền ‎(“hanging mark”) in Vietnamese, and found on À/à, Ằ/ằ, Ầ/ầ, È/è, Ề/ề, Ì/ì, Ò/ò, Ồ/ồ, Ờ/ờ, Ù/ù, Ừ/ừ and Ỳ/ỳ. Used to indicate low-falling, possibly breathy tone.

Usage notes

In Vietnamese handwriting and signmaking, this tone mark may be written as a horizontal line, like a macron (which does not exist in Vietnamese), and the letter I/i retains its tittle.

In earlier versions of Unicode, ̀ was used to represent this tone mark.

Welsh

Diacritical mark

`

1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called acen drom ‎(“grave accent”) in Welsh, and found on À/à, È/è, Ì/ì, Ò/ò, Ù/ù, Ẁ/ẁ and Ỳ/ỳ.