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dieretic

dieretic

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Adjective

dieretic (comparative more dieretic, superlative most dieretic)

  1. (linguistics) Featuring diæresis.
    The word create is dieretic, whereas creature is synaeretic.
  2. Written with a diæresis.
    Some words have many spellings: Take, for example, coordinate, which also has a hyphenated spelling variant — co-ordinate — and a dieretic one, coördinate.