tilde

Borrowed from Spanish tilde, from Latin titulus (“superscript”) or from tildar. Doublet of title.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪldə/, /ˈtɪldi/

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• Rhymes: -ɪldə

tilde (plural tildes)

1. The grapheme of character ~.
   1. A diacritical mark (˜) placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation, such as by palatalization in Spanish words or nasalization in Portuguese words.
   2. A punctuation mark that indicates range (from a number to another number).
   3. May be used to represent approximation (mathematics).
2. (logic) The character used to represent negation, usually ~ or ¬.

Commonly used for these letters: ã, õ, and ñ; Vietnamese, Guaraní etc. use it for several other letters.

• squiggle, twiddle

• overtilde
• undertilde
• zilde

• ASCII
• hyphen
• swung dash – Specific type of tilde, positioned in middle height of line.

• lited, tiled

tilde f (plural tildes)

1. (orthography) accent

• acentu

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tilde

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of tillen

• leidt

• IPA^(key): /ˈtilde/, [ˈt̪ilde̞]
• Hyphenation: til‧de

tilde

1. tilde

• aaltoviiva

• IPA^(key): /tild/

tilde m (plural tildes)

1. tilde

• “tilde” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• délit, ledit

tilde

1. tilde

tilde m or f (plural tildi)

1. tilde (all senses)
2. (typography) tilde, squiggle

From tildar or from Latin titulus, possibly through an Old Catalan or Old Provençal intermediate (accounting for the final -e instead of -o)[1].

tilde m or f (plural tildes) (usually feminine)

1. accent mark, i.e. acute accent
2. tilde
3. criticism, censure

• In Spanish, the “tilde” refers to a diacritic in general (including the tilde on top of ñ) but it is primarily used to designate the acute accent, as in á. The term virgulilla is used to specifically refer to the tilde on top of ñ.

• acento ortográfico
• virgulilla

• acento diacrítico, when used to distinguish “el” from “él”, for instance

tilde

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tildar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tildar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tildar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of tildar.

Borrowed from Spanish tilde.

• IPA^(key): [tilde]

tilde (definite accusative tildeyi, plural tildeler)

1. tilde