acento

Galician

Etymology

From Latin accentus.

Noun

acento m (plural acentos)

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

Related terms

• acentuar

Further reading

• “acento”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Ido

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈt͡sento/

Noun

acento (plural acenti)

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

Derived terms

• acentizar (“to accent, lay stress on”)
• acentizo (“accentuation”)
• acentizuro (“accentuation”)
• neacentizita (“unaccented”)
• senacenta (“unaccented”)

Latin

Verb

acentō

1. third-person plural future active imperative of aceō

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin accentus.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈsẽ.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈsẽ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈsẽ.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈsẽ.tu/

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

Noun

acento m (plural acentos)

1. (orthography) accent (mark to indicate accent)
2. stress (emphasis put on a syllable)

   Synonyms: tonicidade, ênfase

3. accent (voice inflection)

   Synonyms: tom, entonação, inflexão

4. accent (characteristic way of speaking, usually of a region)

   Synonym: sotaque

Derived terms

• acento agudo
• acento circunflexo
• acento grave

See also

• til
• trema
• sotaque

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Colombia):

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

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• acento agudo
• acento grave
• poner el acento

Related terms

• acentual
• acentuar

Further reading

• “acento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10