diérese
Portuguese, noun/d͡ʒiˈɛ.ɾe.zi/
diérese is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “diaeresis (separation of a vowel into two distinct syllables)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cisão, por acidente ou intenção cirúrgica, de tecido biológico”.
What does diérese mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininediaeresis (separation of a vowel into two distinct syllables)
- 2
femininediaeresis (name of the diacritic ¨)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cisão, por acidente ou intenção cirúrgica, de tecido biológico 2. transformação de ditongo a hiato geralmente utilizada nas poesias para adequação métrica 3. trema (sinal ortográfico que se põe sobre uma vogal para indicar que esta não faz ditongo com a que lhe fica ao lado)
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of diérese
- diéreses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce diérese?
- Brazil /d͡ʒiˈɛ.ɾe.zi/
- Brazil /ˈd͡ʒjɛ.ɾe.zi/
- Portugal /ˈdjɛ.ɾɨ.zɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to diérese
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.