◌́ (English, character)
Senses:
glosses: Used on loan words to mark e's (mostly final) that are pronounced rather than silent, e.g. animé, café, exposé, maté, resumé, paté, saké; Malé, Pokémon. (Cf. expose, mate, resume, pate, sake, male.)
tags: diacritic
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Used in glossaries, such as for Latinate technical terms or Classical names, to mark stressed syllables when full pronunciations are not given, as the pronunciation is largely predictable once stress-placement is known.
tags: diacritic
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Used to show an unexpectedly stressed syllable, or where the choice of stress is metrically important, e.g. idiosyncratic caléndar; noun rébel as opposed to verb rebél; áll trádes as a spondee rather than iamb.
tags: diacritic
rare
glosses: Alternative form of ◌̀.
tags: alt-of
alternative
diacritic
glosses: Used in the digraph ⟨ée⟩.
tags: diacritic
obsolete
glosses: Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French é), particularly when unassimilated
tags: diacritic
Forms: