apostrophe

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈpɒs.tɹə.fi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈpɑːs.tɹə.fi/

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From French apostrophe, or Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (apóstrophos, “accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “I turn away”).

• apostrophë
• apostrophy

apostrophe (plural apostrophes)

1. (orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.

In English, the apostrophe is used to mark the possessive or to show the omission of letters or numbers.

• greengrocer's apostrophe

Punctuation

• apostrophe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Latin apostrophe, from Ancient Greek ἀποστροφή (apostrophḗ), from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “I turn away”), from ἀπό (apó) + στρέφω (stréphō, “I turn”).

apostrophe (countable and uncountable, plural apostrophes)

1. (rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.

• apostrophically

• catastrophe

• IPA^(key): /a.pɔs.tʁɔf/

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From Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (apóstrophos, “accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “I turn away”).

apostrophe f (plural apostrophes)

1. (orthography) apostrophe

From Latin apostrophe, from Ancient Greek ἀποστροφή (apostrophḗ), from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “I turn away”), from ἀπό (apó) + στρέφω (stréphō, “I turn”).

apostrophe f (plural apostrophes)

1. (rhetoric) apostrophe

• apostropher

apostrophe

1. first-person singular present indicative of apostropher
2. third-person singular present indicative of apostropher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of apostropher
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of apostropher
5. second-person singular imperative of apostropher

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