diaeretic

• dieretic (UK and Commonwealth English)
• diæretic (dated)

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /daɪəˈɹɛtɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophones: diuretic, diarrhetic
• Rhymes: -ɛtɪk

diaeretic (comparative more diaeretic, superlative most diaeretic)

1. (linguistics) Featuring diaeresis.

   The word create is dieretic, whereas creature is synaeretic.

2. Written with a diaeresis.

   Some words have many spellings: Take, for example, coordinate, which also has a hyphenated spelling variant — co-ordinate — and a dieretic one, coördinate.

3. (philosophy, rhetoric, linguistics) Separative.

• The words dieretic and diuretic have a similar sound in their pronunciation depending on a speaker's accent.

Borrowed from French diérétique.

diaeretic m or n (feminine singular diaeretică, masculine plural diaeretici, feminine and neuter plural diaeretice)

1. (dated) corrosive