circumflex
pronunciation
How to pronounce circumflex in British English:
UK [ˈsɜ:kəmfleks]
How to pronounce circumflex in American English:
US [ˈsɜrkəmfleks]
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- Noun:
- a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality
Word Origin
- circumflex (n.)
- 1570s, from Latin (accentus) circumflexus, "bent around," past participle of circumflectere "to bend around," of a charioteer, "turn around" (from circum "around;" see circum-, + flectere "to bend;" see flexible); used as a loan-translation of Greek (prosodia) perispomenos (Dionysius of Halicarnassus), literally "drawn-around," with reference to shape.
Example
- 1. Treatment of femoral neck fracture in young adults with vascularized pedicled osteoperiosteal flap of deep iliac circumflex vessels .
- 2. We report a30-year-old male amphetamine abuser with acute myocardial infarction owing so acute thrombosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery and left circumflex coronary artery .
- 3. Students to learn how to deal with phrase , to understand the sentence and the circumflex and downs of life , the syntactic do not know how the piano is not harping shells .
- 4. Applied anatomy of greater trochanter bone-periosteum flap pedicled with transversal and middle gluteal muscle branches of lateral femoral circumflex artery .
- 5. Accents circumflex and tilde are not used , as they are often much bigger than the spacing modifier accents .