noun
- plural of circumflex; diacritical marks (^) placed over vowels in some languages to indicate pronunciation, length, or tone
Usage: linguistics; typography
Examples
- French words like ‘hôtel’ and ‘être’ contain circumflexes over certain vowels.
- The student learned to type circumflexes using special keyboard combinations.
- In Welsh, circumflexes indicate long vowels in words like ‘tŷ’.
- The typography manual explained how to properly align circumflexes with letters.
- Many circumflexes in modern French indicate where an ‘s’ was historically present.
- The language textbook included exercises on placing circumflexes correctly.