tilde

See also: Tilde and tildé

English

WOTD – 25 July 2007

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tilde, from Latin titulus (“superscript”) or from tildar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɪldə/, /ˈtɪldi/
  • Audio (US)(file)
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  • Rhymes: -ɪldə

Noun

tilde (plural tildes)

  1. The grapheme of character ~.
    1. A diacritical mark (˜) placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation, such as by palatalization in Spanish words or nasalization in Portuguese words.
    2. A punctuation mark that indicates range (from a number to another number).
    3. May be used to represent approximation (mathematics).
  2. (logic) The character used to represent negation, usually ~ or ¬.

Usage notes

Commonly used for these letters: ã, õ, and ñ; Vietnamese, Guaraní etc. use it for several other letters.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

See also

Anagrams

Asturian

Noun

tilde f (plural tildes)

  1. (orthography) accent

Synonyms

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

tilde

  1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of tillen

Anagrams

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtilde/
  • Hyphenation: til‧de

Noun

tilde

  1. tilde

Declension

Inflection of tilde (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
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

Synonyms

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tild/

Noun

tilde m (plural tildes)

  1. tilde

Further reading

Anagrams

Interlingua

Noun

tilde

  1. tilde

Italian

Noun

tilde m, f (plural tildi)

  1. tilde (all senses)

Spanish

Etymology

From tildar or from Latin titulus, possibly through an Old Catalan or Old Provençal intermediate (accounting for the final -e instead of -o)[1].

Noun

tilde m, f (plural tildes) (usually feminine)

  1. tilde
  2. accent mark
  3. criticism, censure

Usage notes

  • In Spanish, the “tilde” refers to a diacritic in general, including the acute accent, as in á, but especially the diacritic ñ.

Synonyms

Verb

tilde

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tildar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tildar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tildar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of tildar.

References

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tilde.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tilde]

Noun

tilde (definite accusative tildeyi, plural tildeler)

  1. tilde

Declension

Inflection
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
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