[dʌɪˈɛrɪsɪs], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a mark (¨) placed over a vowel to indicate that it is sounded separately, as in naïve, Brontë

- a natural rhythmic break in a line of verse where the end of a metrical foot coincides with the end of a phrase


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century (denoting the division of one syllable into two): via Latin from Greek diairesis ‘separation’, from diairein ‘take apart’, from dia ‘apart’ + hairein ‘take’