circumflex

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː.kəmˌflɛks/
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• US: /ˈsɝ.kəmˌflɛks/
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Learned borrowing from Latin circumflexus (“bent about”), calqued from Ancient Greek περισπώμενος (perispṓmenos, “drawn around”).

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: circumflex — with circumflex accent
• Finnish: sirkumfleksi- — with circumflex accent
• French: circonflexe — with circumflex accent
• Ido: circuflexio — with circumflex accent
• Italian: circonflesso — with circumflex accent
• Ligurian: circonflèsso — with circumflex accent
• Portuguese: circunflexo — with circumflex accent
• Spanish: circunflejo — with circumflex accent
• Turkish: şapkalı — with circumflex accent
• Vietnamese: mũ — with circumflex accent
• Volapük: sirkumflegik — with circumflex accent
• Bulgarian: обиколен (obikolen) — curving around
• Finnish: kiertävä — curving around
• Italian: circonflesso — curving around
• Italian: arcuato — curving around
• Italian: incurvato — curving around
• Portuguese: circunflexo — curving around
• Spanish: circunflejo — curving around
• Afrikaans: sirkumfleks — circumflex accent
• Afrikaans: kappie — circumflex accent
• Bulgarian: циркумфле́кс (cirkumfléks) — circumflex accent
• Catalan: circumflex — circumflex accent
• Chinese Mandarin: 抑揚音符 /抑扬音符 (yìyáng yīnfú) — circumflex accent
• Chinese Mandarin: 抑揚符 /抑扬符 (yìyángfú) — circumflex accent
• Czech: stříška — circumflex accent
• Czech: vokáň — circumflex accent
• Danish: cirkumfleks — circumflex accent
• Dutch: accent circonflexe — circumflex accent
• Dutch: circonflexe — circumflex accent
• Dutch: circumflex — circumflex accent
• Dutch: dakje — circumflex accent
• Esperanto: ĉapelo — circumflex accent
• Esperanto: cirkumflekso — circumflex accent
• Finnish: sirkumfleksi — circumflex accent
• French: circonflexe — circumflex accent
• French: accent circonflexe — circumflex accent
• West-Frisian: breedteken — circumflex accent
• Galician: circunflexo — circumflex accent
• German: Zirkumflex — circumflex accent
• German: Accent circonflexe — circumflex accent
• German: Dach — circumflex accent
• Ancient Greek: περισπωμένη (perispōménē) — circumflex accent
• Ancient Greek: ὀξύβαρις (oxúbaris) — circumflex accent
• Hebrew: גַּג (gag) — circumflex accent
• Hungarian: kúpos ékezet — circumflex accent
• Hungarian: hajtott ékezet — circumflex accent
• Hungarian: csúcsos ékezet — circumflex accent
• Hungarian: circumflex — circumflex accent
• Hungarian: háztető — circumflex accent
• Icelandic: hattur — circumflex accent
• Indonesian: sirkumfleks — circumflex accent
• Irish: cuairín — circumflex accent
• Italian: accento circonflesso — circumflex accent
• Italian: circonflesso — circumflex accent
• Japanese: サーカムフレックス (sākamufurekkusu) — circumflex accent
• Korean: 곡절 부호 (gokjeol buho) — circumflex accent
• Korean: 서컴플렠스 (seokeompeullekseu) — circumflex accent
• Latvian: cirkumflekss — circumflex accent
• Malay: sirkumfleks — circumflex accent
• Norwegian Bokmål: cirkumfleks — circumflex accent
• Norwegian Bokmål: sirkumfleks — circumflex accent
• Norwegian Bokmål: accent circonflexe — circumflex accent
• Norwegian Nynorsk: cirkumfleks — circumflex accent
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sirkumfleks — circumflex accent
• Norwegian Nynorsk: accent circonflexe — circumflex accent
• Polish: daszek — circumflex accent
• Portuguese: circunflexo — circumflex accent
• Portuguese: acento circunflexo — circumflex accent
• Romanian: accent circumflex — circumflex accent
• Russian: циркумфле́кс (cirkumfléks) — circumflex accent
• Slovak: vokáň — circumflex accent
• Slovak: cirkumflex — circumflex accent
• Spanish: circunflejo — circumflex accent
• Sranan Tongo: topimarki — circumflex accent
• Swedish: cirkumflex — circumflex accent
• Tagalog: pakupya — circumflex accent
• Turkish: sirkonfleks — circumflex accent
• Turkish: düzeltme işareti — circumflex accent
• Turkish: şapka — circumflex accent
• Turkish: şapka işareti — circumflex accent
• Vietnamese: dấu mũ — circumflex accent
• Volapük: sirkumfleg — circumflex accent
• Welsh: to bach — circumflex accent
• Welsh: acen grom — circumflex accent
• Welsh: hirnod — circumflex accent
• Finnish: merkitä sirkumfleksilla — to mark or pronounce with circumflex
• Italian: circonflettere — to mark or pronounce with circumflex