dialytika

D2I1A1L1Y4T1I1K5A1

noun

A diaeresis or trema in the Greek alphabet

Scrabble 17

Meanings

noun
  1. communicationsA diaeresis or trema in the Greek alphabet

    The oxia and varia are represented using the regular acute and grave accent characters, the dialytika with the regular diaeresis character, and the psili and dasia are represented using the regular combining-comma-above and combining-reversed-comma-above characters.

    2003, Richard Gillam, “The Greek Alphabet”, in Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer’s Guide to the Encoding Standard, Boston, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, part II (Unicode in Depth: A Guided Tour of the Character Repertoire), chapter 7 (Scripts of Europe), page 240

Origin

  1. Greekδιαλυτικά
  2. Englishdialytika

From Greek διαλυτικά (dialytiká).

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

dialytika. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dialytika

MLA

“dialytika.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dialytika. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dialytika,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dialytika.

Source: dialytika on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.