Definition of "diaeretic" in English

adjective

1. (linguistics) Featuring diaeresis.

   • The word create is dieretic, whereas creature is synaeretic.

2. Written with a diaeresis.

   • Some words have many spellings: Take, for example, coordinate, which also has a hyphenated spelling variant — co-ordinate — and a dieretic one, coördinate.

3. (philosophy, rhetoric, linguistics) Separative.