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circumflex
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circumflex /cir·cum·flex/ (serk´um-fleks) curved like a bow.
cir·cum·flex (sûrkm-flks)
adj.
1. Curving or bending around.
2. Bowed.
circumflex
[sur′kəmfleks]
Etymology: L, circum, around, flexcere, to bend
winding around; pertaining to blood vessels or nerves that wind around other body structures, as in the circumflex coronary artery.
circumflex [ser´kum-fleks]
curved like a bow.
circumflex
curved like a bow.
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It's all a case of accent: One has a circumflex, the other doesn't.
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To discriminate them, an extended vowel should be marked by a circumflex, a thin sound by two dots, and may the normal sound be without any [marking].
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