apostrophe

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈpɒs.tɹə.fi/ (US) IPA(key): /əˈpɑs.tɹə.fi/ === Etymology 1 === 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”), from ἀπό (apó, “away from”) + στρέφω (stréphō, “to turn”). ==== Alternative forms ==== apostrophë, apostrophy ==== Noun ==== apostrophe (plural apostrophes) (orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts. ===== Usage notes ===== In English, the apostrophe is used to mark the possessive (e.g., “my friend’s wife”), and to show the omission of letters (e.g., “my friend’s angry”) or of numbers (e.g., "during the 1960s and ’70s"). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== apostrophe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Punctuation === Etymology 2 === From Latin apostrophe, from Ancient Greek ἀποστροφή (apostrophḗ), from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “I turn away”), from ἀπό (apó) + στρέφω (stréphō, “I turn”). ==== Noun ==== apostrophe (countable and uncountable, plural apostrophes) (rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent. ===== Derived terms ===== apostrophic, apostrophically apostrophize ===== Related terms ===== catastrophe ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== apostrophe (botany) An arrangement of chlorophyll grains perpendicular to the outer surface of plant cells, as opposed to epistrophe (an arrangement on the outer surface). === Anagrams === protophase == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /a.pɔs.tʁɔf/ Homophones: apostrophent, apostrophes === Etymology 1 === From Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (apóstrophos, “accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “to turn away”). ==== Noun ==== apostrophe f (plural apostrophes) (orthography) apostrophe ===== Descendants ===== → English: apostrophe → Romanian: apostrof → Russian: апо́строф (apóstrof)→ Azerbaijani: apostrof → Persian: آپاستروف (âpâstruf) → Turkish: apostrof === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from Latin apostropha, apostrophe, from Ancient Greek ἀποστροφή (apostrophḗ), from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “to turn away”), from ἀπό (apó) + στρέφω (stréphō, “to turn”). ==== Noun ==== apostrophe f (plural apostrophes) (rhetoric) apostrophe (grammar) A vocative expression ===== Related terms ===== apostropher === Etymology 3 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== apostrophe inflection of apostropher: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive second-person singular imperative === Further reading === “apostrophe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ἀποστροφή (apostrophḗ, literally “a turning away”), from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “I turn away”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈpɔs.trɔ.pʰeː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈpɔs.tro.fe] === Noun === apostrophē f (genitive apostrophēs); first declension alternative form of apostropha ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē). === References === “apostrophe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “apostrophe”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.