acuted

English

Verb

acuted

1. simple past and past participle of acute

Adjective

acuted (not comparable)

1. (linguistics, possessional) Of a written word: exhibiting acute accent.
2. (linguistics) Of a pronounced word: exhibiting a language-specific type of pitch accent or tone characterized by an acute accent mark in the respective language transcription or orthography.
   • 1866, C[harles] B[agot] Cayley, “IX.—On the Verification of Homeric Accentuation.”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, London; Berlin: Published for the [Philological] Society by Asher & Co., […], →OCLC, page 77:

     I do not suppose the Greeks altered the letters in exactly the same way, but rather that their acuted οί inclined toward the modern sound, or that the Ο was attenuated or altogether lost in it. The diphthong in unaccented syllables probably resembled the acuted rather than the circumflex; for before an enclitic it can only assume the acute accent.

Anagrams

• Ducate, ducate