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Macron

noun
1.
A diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound.





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"Macron" Quotes from Famous Books



... been transliterated and shown between marks. Vowels with macron ("long" mark) have a circumflex accent instead. Vowels with breve ("short" mark, not common) have been unpacked and shown in ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... a large number of characters with a macron (straight line) over them. These have been rendered in this version as [x] (where x is the letter). There are also a few OE ligatures, ...
— The Story of the Barbary Corsairs • Stanley Lane-Poole


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