tilde
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Spanish tilde, from Latin titulus (“superscript”) or from tildar. Doublet of titer/titre, title, titlo, tittle, and titulus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tilde (plural tildes)
- The grapheme of character ~.
- A diacritical mark (˜) placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation, such as by palatalization in Spanish words or nasalization in Portuguese words.
- 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 162:
- The tilde was used similarly in Portuguese on vowels to show that the letter bearing the tilde should be pronounced nasally.
- A punctuation mark that indicates range (from a number to another number).
- May be used to represent approximation (mathematics).
- A diacritical mark (˜) placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation, such as by palatalization in Spanish words or nasalization in Portuguese words.
- (logic) The character used to represent negation, usually ~ or ¬.
Usage notesEdit
Commonly used for these letters: ã and õ (Portuguese), and ñ (Spanish); Vietnamese, Guaraní etc. use it for several other letters.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
diacritical mark
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character
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See alsoEdit
- ASCII
- hyphen
- swung dash – Specific type of tilde, positioned in middle height of line.
AnagramsEdit
AsturianEdit
NounEdit
tilde f (plural tildes)
SynonymsEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
VerbEdit
tilde
- singular past indicative and subjunctive of tillen
AnagramsEdit
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tilde
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of tilde (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | tilde | tildet | |
genitive | tilden | tildejen | |
partitive | tildeä | tildejä | |
illative | tildeen | tildeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | tilde | tildet | |
accusative | nom. | tilde | tildet |
gen. | tilden | ||
genitive | tilden | tildejen tildeinrare | |
partitive | tildeä | tildejä | |
inessive | tildessä | tildeissä | |
elative | tildestä | tildeistä | |
illative | tildeen | tildeihin | |
adessive | tildellä | tildeillä | |
ablative | tildeltä | tildeiltä | |
allative | tildelle | tildeille | |
essive | tildenä | tildeinä | |
translative | tildeksi | tildeiksi | |
instructive | — | tildein | |
abessive | tildettä | tildeittä | |
comitative | — | tildeineen |
Possessive forms of tilde (type nalle) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | tildeni | tildemme |
2nd person | tildesi | tildenne |
3rd person | tildensä |
SynonymsEdit
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tilde m (plural tildes)
Further readingEdit
- “tilde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
InterlinguaEdit
NounEdit
tilde
ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tilde m or f (plural tildi)
- tilde (all senses)
- (typography) tilde, squiggle
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From tildar or from Latin titulus, possibly through an Old Catalan or Old Provençal intermediate (accounting for the final -e instead of -o)[1].
NounEdit
tilde m or f (plural tildes) (usually feminine)
- accent mark, i.e. acute accent
- Synonym: acento ortográfico
- tilde
- Synonym: virgulilla
- criticism, censure
Usage notesEdit
- In Spanish, the term tilde refers to a diacritic in general (including the tilde on top of ñ) but it is primarily used to designate the acute accent, as in á. The term virgulilla is used to specifically refer to the tilde on top of ñ.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → English: tilde
- → Japanese: チルダ (chiruda)
- → Polish: tylda
- → Russian: ти́льда (tílʹda)
- → Serbo-Croatian: ти̑лда / tȋlda
- → Turkish: tilde
See alsoEdit
- acento diacrítico, when used to distinguish “el” from “él”, for instance
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
tilde
- inflection of tildar:
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further readingEdit
- “tilde”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tilde (definite accusative tildeyi, plural tildeler)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | tilde | |
Definite accusative | tildeyi | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | tilde | tildeler |
Definite accusative | tildeyi | tildeleri |
Dative | tildeye | tildelere |
Locative | tildede | tildelerde |
Ablative | tildeden | tildelerden |
Genitive | tildenin | tildelerin |