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noun, feminine

tilde

/ˈtilde/

noun, feminine/ˈtilde/plural: tildes

diacritic; acute accent; tilde; criticism, censure

llevar tilde(of a word) to have an acute accent

Synonyms: acento, acento ortográfico, virgulilla

Deverbal from tildar or from Latin titulus, possibly through an Old Catalan or Old Provençal intermediate (accounting for the final -e instead of -o).