macron

See also: macrón, mácron, and Macron

macron - English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: măkʹrŏn, mākʹrŏn, IPA: /ˈmækɹɒn/, /ˈmeɪkɹɒn/
  • (General American) IPA: /ˈmeɪkɹɑn/, /ˈmækɹɑn/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧cron

Noun

Examples
  • Latin pōpulus (poplar tree, indicates vowel length)
  • Mandarin chūzūchē (taxi, indicates first tone)
  • Translingual (antiproton, indicates antimatter equivalent)

macron (plural macrons or (rare) macra)

  1. (orthography) A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (◌̄) placed over a letter, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long.

Derived terms

Translations

  • Arabic: عَلَامَة اَلْمَدّ f (ʕalāma(t) al-madd)
  • Catalan: màcron m
  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: 長音符號长音符号 (chángyīn fúhào), 長音符长音符 (zh) (chángyīnfú)
  • Czech: makron m
  • Dutch: macron (nl) c
  • Esperanto: superstreko
  • Finnish: pituusmerkki (fi)
  • French: macron (fr) m
  • Galician: macrón m
  • Georgian: მაკრონი (maḳroni), ხმოვნის ხანგრძლივობის ნიშანი (xmovnis xangrʒlivobis nišani), ხმოვნის სიგრძის აღმნიშვნელი ნიშანი (xmovnis sigrʒis aɣmnišvneli nišani)
  • German: Längenstrich m, Längestrich m, Makron (de) n, Verlängerungszeichen n
  • Greek:
  • Hawaiian: kahakō
  • Hungarian: makron, hosszúságjel, (somewhat informal) vonal (hu)
  • Icelandic: lengdarmerki n
  • Irish: macran m, macrón m
  • Italian: macron m
  • Japanese: マクロン (makuron)
  • Latin: signum productionis n
  • Latvian: garumzīme f
  • Lithuanian: brūkšnelis ?
  • Maori: tohutō, pōtae, hahae
  • Norwegian: makron n
  • Persian: ماکرون (mâkron)
  • Polish: makron m
  • Portuguese: mácron m, macro (pt) m
  • Russian: макро́н (ru) m (makrón)
  • Spanish: macrón (es) m
  • Swedish: streck (sv) n, makron (sv) n, längdstreck n
  • Tahitian: tārava
  • Tongan: toloi

Anagrams

macron - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmaː.krɔn/

Noun

macron m (plural macrons, diminutive macrontje n)

  1. (orthography) macron

Hypernyms

  • diakriet

macron - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ma.kʁɔ̃/

Noun

macron m (plural macrons)

  1. macron

macron - Italian

Noun

macron m (invariable)

  1. macron
Meaning and Definition of macron
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