1. of or relating to a diaeresis; involving the separation of two vowels that are normally pronounced as a single sound
Usage: linguistics, phonetics

Examples

• The dieretic pronunciation of 'naïve' separates the vowels into two distinct syllables.
• In dieretic notation, a diaeresis mark indicates where a vowel division occurs.
• Some languages use dieretic rules to clarify vowel pronunciation in borrowed words.