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circumflex

cir·cumf·lex

UK/ˈsɜː.kəmˌflɛks/ US/ˈsɝ.kəmˌflɛks/ uncommon obsolete

noun

1.

a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin circumflexus (“bent about”), calqued from Ancient Greek περισπώμενος (perispṓmenos, “drawn around”).

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