circumflex

Meaning of circumflex

noun

a mark (^) placed over a vowel in some languages to indicate contraction, length, or a particular quality.

adjective
  1. bending round something else; curved.
    circumflex coronary arteries

late 16th century: from Latin circumflexus (from circum ‘around, about’ + flectere ‘to bend’), translating Greek perispōmenos ‘drawn around’.

Information about circumflex

Hyphenation of circumflex

cir-cum-flex

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • circumflex is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

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