acento

From Latin accentus.

acento m (plural acentos)

1. accent (typographical line)
2. accent (variety of speech connected to a certain geographical region)

• acentuar

• “acento”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

Borrowed from Esperanto akcento, English accent, French accent, German Akzent, Italian accento, Russian акце́нт (akcént), Spanish acento. Doublet of achento.

• IPA^(key): /aˈt͡sento/

acento (plural acenti)

1. accent (stress of voice, not written accent)

acentō

1. third-person plural future active imperative of aceō

Learned borrowing from Latin accentus.

• Homophone: assento
• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Hyphenation: a‧cen‧to

acento m (plural acentos)

1. (orthography) accent (mark to indicate accent)

• acento agudo
• acento circunflexo
• acento grave

• til
• trema
• sotaque

From late Old Spanish accento, acento, borrowed from Latin accentus.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aˈθento/ [aˈθẽn̪.t̪o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /aˈsento/ [aˈsẽn̪.t̪o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: a‧cen‧to

acento m (plural acentos)

1. accent (typographical line)

   Synonym: tilde

2. accent (variety of speech connected to a certain geographical region)

   Su acento me es casi imposible de entender.

   His accent is almost impossible for me to understand.

• “acento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014