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vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Usage_notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.2.1</span> <span>Usage notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Usage_notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Derived_terms" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Derived_terms"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.2.2</span> <span>Derived terms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Derived_terms-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Translations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Translations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.2.3</span> <span>Translations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Translations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.2.4</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Etymology_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Etymology_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3</span> <span>Etymology 2</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Etymology_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Noun_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Noun_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.1</span> <span>Noun</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Noun_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Derived_terms_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Derived_terms_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.1.1</span> <span>Derived terms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Derived_terms_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Related_terms" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Related_terms"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.1.2</span> <span>Related terms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Related_terms-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Translations_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Translations_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.1.3</span> <span>Translations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Translations_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Anagrams" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Anagrams"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4</span> <span>Anagrams</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Anagrams-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-French" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#French"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>French</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-French-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle French subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-French-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Pronunciation_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pronunciation_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Pronunciation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pronunciation_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Etymology_1_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Etymology_1_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Etymology 1</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Etymology_1_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Noun_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Noun_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.1</span> <span>Noun</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Noun_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Descendants" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Descendants"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.1.1</span> <span>Descendants</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Descendants-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Etymology_2_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Etymology_2_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Etymology 2</span> </div> </a> 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title="apostrophe – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Norwegian" lang="no" hreflang="no" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Norsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://om.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Oromoo" data-language-local-name="Oromo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oromoo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shn mw-list-item"><a href="https://shn.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe – Shan" lang="shn" hreflang="shn" data-title="apostrophe" data-language-autonym="ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး " data-language-local-name="Shan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး </span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a 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href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-accent"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation" class="extiw" title="w:Received Pronunciation">Received Pronunciation</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/əˈpɒs.tɹə.fi/</span></li> <li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r50165410">.mw-parser-output .k-player .k-attribution{visibility:hidden}</style><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="usage-label-accent"><span class="ib-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_in_southern_England" class="extiw" title="w:English in southern England">Southern England</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><span class="ib-colon qualifier-colon">:</span></td><td class="audiofile"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-apostrophe.wav" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/72/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-apostrophe.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-apostrophe.wav.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-transcodekey="ogg" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/72/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-apostrophe.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-apostrophe.wav.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-apostrophe.wav" type="audio/wav" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-apostrophe.wav" title="File:LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-apostrophe.wav">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-accent"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English" class="extiw" title="w:American English">US</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/əˈpɑs.tɹə.fi/</span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r50165410"><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="usage-label-accent"><span class="ib-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English" class="extiw" title="w:American English">US</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><span class="ib-colon qualifier-colon">:</span></td><td class="audiofile"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_1" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="en-us-apostrophe.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/En-us-apostrophe.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/75/En-us-apostrophe.ogg/En-us-apostrophe.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:en-us-apostrophe.ogg" title="File:en-us-apostrophe.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r50165410"><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="usage-label-accent"><span class="ib-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English_phonology" class="extiw" title="w:Australian English phonology">General Australian</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><span class="ib-colon qualifier-colon">:</span></td><td class="audiofile"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_2" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="en-au-apostrophe.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/En-au-apostrophe.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/46/En-au-apostrophe.ogg/En-au-apostrophe.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:en-au-apostrophe.ogg" title="File:en-au-apostrophe.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_1">Etymology 1</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Etymology 1"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" class="extiw" title="w:French language">French</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#French">apostrophe</a></i>, or <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Latin">Latin</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/apostrophus#Latin" title="apostrophus">apostrophus</a></i>, from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="w:Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a></span> <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%80%CF%8C%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" title="ἀπόστροφος">ἀπόστροφος</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">apóstrophos</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">accent of elision</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, a noun use of an adjective from <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%AD%CF%86%CF%89#Ancient_Greek" title="ἀποστρέφω">ἀποστρέφω</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">apostréphō</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">I turn away</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, from <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%80%CF%8C#Ancient_Greek" title="ἀπό">ἀπό</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">apó</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">away from</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> + <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%AD%CF%86%CF%89#Ancient_Greek" title="στρέφω">στρέφω</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">stréphō</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">to turn</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Alternative_forms">Alternative forms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Alternative forms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/apostroph%C3%AB#English" title="apostrophë">apostrophë</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/apostrophy#English" title="apostrophy">apostrophy</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Noun">Noun</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">apostrophe</strong> (<i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en p-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/apostrophes#English" title="apostrophes">apostrophes</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li><li class="senseid" id="English:_character"> <span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="/wiki/orthography" title="orthography">orthography</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> The text character <b><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%99" title="’">’</a></b>, which serves as a <a href="/wiki/punctuation" title="punctuation">punctuation</a> mark in various languages and as a <a href="/wiki/diacritical_mark" title="diacritical mark">diacritical mark</a> in certain rare contexts. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2021</b></span>, Claire Cock-Starkey, <cite>Hyphens & Hashtags</cite>, Bodleian Library, page <span class="None" lang="und">30</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Since its inception the <b>apostrophe</b> has been a controversial piece of punctuation.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Usage_notes">Usage notes</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Usage notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In English, the apostrophe is used to mark the <a href="/wiki/possessive" title="possessive">possessive</a> (e.g., “my friend’s wife”), and to show the <a href="/wiki/omission" title="omission">omission</a> of letters (e.g., “my friend’s angry”) or of numbers (e.g., "during the 1960s and ’70s").</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Derived_terms">Derived terms</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Derived terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="list-switcher" data-toggle-category="derived terms"><div class="columns-bg term-list ul-column-count" data-column-count="3"><ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/apologetic_apostrophe#English" title="apologetic apostrophe">apologetic apostrophe</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/apostrophectomy#English" title="apostrophectomy">apostrophectomy</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/apostrophed#English" title="apostrophed">apostrophed</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/apostropheless#English" title="apostropheless">apostropheless</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/apostrophise#English" title="apostrophise">apostrophise</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/curly_apostrophe#English" title="curly apostrophe">curly apostrophe</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/greengrocers%27_apostrophe#English" title="greengrocers' apostrophe">greengrocers' apostrophe</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/greengrocer%27s_apostrophe#English" title="greengrocer's apostrophe">greengrocer's apostrophe</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/printer%27s_apostrophe#English" title="printer's apostrophe">printer's apostrophe</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/straight_apostrophe#English" title="straight apostrophe">straight apostrophe</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/typewriter_apostrophe#English" title="typewriter apostrophe">typewriter apostrophe</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/typographical_apostrophe#English" title="typographical apostrophe">typographical apostrophe</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/typographic_apostrophe#English" title="typographic apostrophe">typographic apostrophe</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/vertical_apostrophe#English" title="vertical apostrophe">vertical apostrophe</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="list-switcher-element" data-showtext=" show more ▼ " data-hidetext=" show less ▲ " style="display:none"> </div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Translations">Translations</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-the_character_’"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">the character ’</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="the character ’"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81584270">.mw-parser-output .translations{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .translations-cell{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-lightyellow,#FFFFe0);vertical-align:top;text-align:left}</style> <ul><li>Albanian: <span class="Latn" lang="sq"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Albanian" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://sq.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrof" class="extiw" title="sq:apostrof">(sq)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Arabic: <span class="Arab" lang="ar"><a href="/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B5%D9%84%D8%A9_%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7#Arabic" title="فاصلة عليا">فَاصِلَة عُلْيَا</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ar-Latn" class="tr Latn">fāṣila ʕulyā</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Armenian: <span class="Armn" lang="hy"><a href="/wiki/%D5%A1%D5%BA%D5%A1%D5%A9%D5%A1%D6%80%D6%81#Armenian" title="ապաթարց">ապաթարց</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hy.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D5%A1%D5%BA%D5%A1%D5%A9%D5%A1%D6%80%D6%81" class="extiw" title="hy:ապաթարց">(hy)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="hy-Latn" class="tr Latn">apatʻarcʻ</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Asturian: <span class="Latn" lang="ast"><a href="/wiki/ap%C3%B3strofu#Asturian" title="apóstrofu">apóstrofu</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ast.wiktionary.org/wiki/ap%C3%B3strofu" class="extiw" title="ast:apóstrofu">(ast)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Azerbaijani: <span class="Latn" lang="az"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Azerbaijani" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span></li> <li>Belarusian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="be"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84#Belarusian" title="апостраф">апо́страф</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="be-Latn" class="tr Latn">apóstraf</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Bengali: <span class="Beng" lang="bn"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%E0%A6%8A%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ঊর্ধকমা (page does not exist)">ঊর্ধকমা</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="bn-Latn" class="tr Latn">urdhokma</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Bulgarian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="bg"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84#Bulgarian" title="апостроф">апостро́ф</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://bg.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84" class="extiw" title="bg:апостроф">(bg)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="bg-Latn" class="tr Latn">apostróf</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Catalan: <span class="Latn" lang="ca"><a href="/wiki/ap%C3%B2strof#Catalan" title="apòstrof">apòstrof</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Chinese: <dl><dd>Mandarin: <span class="Hant" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E7%9C%81%E7%95%A5%E7%AC%A6%E8%99%9F#Mandarin" title="省略符號">省略符號</a></span><span class="Zsym mention" style="font-size:100%;">／</span><span class="Hans" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E7%9C%81%E7%95%A5%E7%AC%A6%E5%8F%B7#Mandarin" title="省略符号">省略符号</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%9C%81%E7%95%A5%E7%AC%A6%E8%99%9F" class="extiw" title="zh:省略符號">(zh)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="cmn-Latn" class="tr Latn">shěnglüè fúhào</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Hant" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E9%9A%94%E9%9F%B3%E7%AC%A6%E8%99%9F#Mandarin" title="隔音符號">隔音符號</a></span><span class="Zsym mention" style="font-size:100%;">／</span><span class="Hans" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E9%9A%94%E9%9F%B3%E7%AC%A6%E5%8F%B7#Mandarin" title="隔音符号">隔音符号</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="cmn-Latn" class="tr Latn">géyīn fúhào</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Hani" lang="cmn"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%E7%9C%81%E5%AD%97%E7%AC%A6&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="省字符 (page does not exist)">省字符</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="cmn-Latn" class="tr Latn">shěngzìfú</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Hant" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E6%92%87%E8%99%9F#Mandarin" title="撇號">撇號</a></span><span class="Zsym mention" style="font-size:100%;">／</span><span class="Hans" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E6%92%87%E5%8F%B7#Mandarin" title="撇号">撇号</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%92%87%E8%99%9F" class="extiw" title="zh:撇號">(zh)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="cmn-Latn" class="tr Latn">piěhào</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Hant" lang="cmn"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%E9%A0%93%E5%91%BC&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="頓呼 (page does not exist)">頓呼</a></span><span class="Zsym mention" style="font-size:100%;">／</span><span class="Hans" lang="cmn"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%E9%A1%BF%E5%91%BC&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="顿呼 (page does not exist)">顿呼</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="cmn-Latn" class="tr Latn">dùnhū</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></dd></dl></li> <li>Cornish: <span class="Latn" lang="kw"><a href="/w/index.php?title=kollverk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kollverk (page does not exist)">kollverk</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="kw"><a href="/w/index.php?title=kollverkys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kollverkys (page does not exist)">kollverkys</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr> <abbr title="plural number">pl</abbr></span></li> <li>Czech: <span class="Latn" lang="cs"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Czech" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrof" class="extiw" title="cs:apostrof">(cs)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Danish: <span class="Latn" lang="da"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Danish" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="common gender">c</abbr></span></li> <li>Dutch: <span class="Latn" lang="nl"><a href="/wiki/weglatingsteken#Dutch" title="weglatingsteken">weglatingsteken</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/weglatingsteken" class="extiw" title="nl:weglatingsteken">(nl)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="neuter gender">n</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="nl"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Dutch" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrof" class="extiw" title="nl:apostrof">(nl)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Esperanto: <span class="Latn" lang="eo"><a href="/wiki/apostrofo#Esperanto" title="apostrofo">apostrofo</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://eo.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrofo" class="extiw" title="eo:apostrofo">(eo)</a></span></li> <li>Estonian: <span class="Latn" lang="et"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%BClakoma&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ülakoma (page does not exist)">ülakoma</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://et.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%BClakoma" class="extiw" title="et:ülakoma">(et)</a></span></li> <li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/heittomerkki#Finnish" title="heittomerkki">heittomerkki</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/heittomerkki" class="extiw" title="fi:heittomerkki">(fi)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/apostrofi#Finnish" title="apostrofi">apostrofi</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrofi" class="extiw" title="fi:apostrofi">(fi)</a></span> (rare)</li> <li>French: <span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#French">apostrophe</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" class="extiw" title="fr:apostrophe">(fr)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Galician: <span class="Latn" lang="gl"><a href="/wiki/ap%C3%B3strofo#Galician" title="apóstrofo">apóstrofo</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Georgian: <span class="Geor" lang="ka"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%E1%83%90%E1%83%9E%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="აპოსტროფი (page does not exist)">აპოსტროფი</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ka-Latn" class="tr Latn">aṗosṭropi</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>German: <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Apostroph#German" title="Apostroph">Apostroph</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Apostroph" class="extiw" title="de:Apostroph">(de)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Hochkomma#German" title="Hochkomma">Hochkomma</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hochkomma" class="extiw" title="de:Hochkomma">(de)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="neuter gender">n</abbr></span></li> <li>Greek: <span class="Grek" lang="el"><a href="/wiki/%CE%B1%CF%80%CF%8C%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%82#Greek" title="απόστροφος">απόστροφος</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B1%CF%80%CF%8C%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%82" class="extiw" title="el:απόστροφος">(el)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="el-Latn" class="tr Latn">apóstrofos</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> <dl><dd>Ancient: <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%80%CF%8C%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" title="ἀπόστροφος">ἀπόστροφος</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="tr Latn">apóstrophos</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></dd></dl></li> <li>Hebrew: <span class="Hebr" lang="he"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D7%90%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A3&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="אפוסטרוף (page does not exist)">אַפּוֹסְטְרוֹף</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="tr Latn">apostrof</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Hungarian: <span class="Latn" lang="hu"><a href="/wiki/aposztr%C3%B3f#Hungarian" title="aposztróf">aposztróf</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/aposztr%C3%B3f" class="extiw" title="hu:aposztróf">(hu)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="hu"><a href="/w/index.php?title=hi%C3%A1nyjel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="hiányjel (page does not exist)">hiányjel</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/hi%C3%A1nyjel" class="extiw" title="hu:hiányjel">(hu)</a></span></li> <li>Icelandic: <span class="Latn" lang="is"><a href="/wiki/%C3%BArfellingarmerki#Icelandic" title="úrfellingarmerki">úrfellingarmerki</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="neuter gender">n</abbr></span></li> <li>Ido: <span class="Latn" lang="io"><a href="/wiki/apostrofo#Ido" title="apostrofo">apostrofo</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://io.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrofo" class="extiw" title="io:apostrofo">(io)</a></span></li> <li>Ilocano: <span class="Latn" lang="ilo"><a href="/w/index.php?title=tuldek&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="tuldek (page does not exist)">tuldek</a></span></li> <li>Indonesian: <span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/w/index.php?title=tanda_penyingkat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="tanda penyingkat (page does not exist)">tanda penyingkat</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://id.wiktionary.org/wiki/tanda_penyingkat" class="extiw" title="id:tanda penyingkat">(id)</a></span></li> <li>Interlingua: <span class="Latn" lang="ia"><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostropho&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="apostropho (page does not exist)">apostropho</a></span></li> <li>Irish: <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/w/index.php?title=uascham%C3%B3g&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="uaschamóg (page does not exist)">uaschamóg</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/apastr%C3%B3f#Irish" title="apastróf">apastróf</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Italian: <span class="Latn" lang="it"><a href="/wiki/apostrofo#Italian" title="apostrofo">apostrofo</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrofo" class="extiw" title="it:apostrofo">(it)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Japanese: <span class="Jpan" lang="ja"><a href="/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%9D%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC#Japanese" title="アポストロフィー">アポストロフィー</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%9D%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC" class="extiw" title="ja:アポストロフィー">(ja)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="tr">aposutorofī</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Jpan" lang="ja"><a href="/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%9D%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD%E3%83%95#Japanese" title="アポストロフ">アポストロフ</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%9D%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD%E3%83%95" class="extiw" title="ja:アポストロフ">(ja)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="tr">aposutorofu</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Jpan" lang="ja"><a href="/wiki/%E7%9C%81%E7%95%A5%E7%AC%A6%E5%8F%B7#Japanese" title="省略符号">省略符号</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="tr">しょうりゃくふごう, shōryaku fugō</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Kazakh: <span class="Cyrl" lang="kk"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84#Kazakh" title="апостроф">апостроф</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="kk-Latn" class="tr Latn">apostrof</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Korean: <span class="Kore" lang="ko"><a href="/wiki/%EC%95%84%ED%8F%AC%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8%EB%A1%9C%ED%94%BC#Korean" title="아포스트로피">아포스트로피</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ko-Latn" class="tr Latn">aposeuteuropi</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Kyrgyz: <span class="Cyrl" lang="ky"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84#Kyrgyz" title="апостроф">апостроф</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ky.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84" class="extiw" title="ky:апостроф">(ky)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ky-Latn" class="tr Latn">apostrof</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Latin: <span class="Latn" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/apostrophus#Latin" title="apostrophus">apostrophus</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Latvian: <span class="Latn" lang="lv"><a href="/wiki/apostrofs#Latvian" title="apostrofs">apostrofs</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Lithuanian: <span class="Latn" lang="lt"><a href="/wiki/apostrofas#Lithuanian" title="apostrofas">apostrofas</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Luxembourgish: <span class="Latn" lang="lb"><a href="/wiki/Apostroph#Luxembourgish" title="Apostroph">Apostroph</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Macedonian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="mk"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84#Macedonian" title="апостроф">апостроф</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="mk-Latn" class="tr Latn">apostrof</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Malay: <span class="Latn" lang="ms"><a href="/w/index.php?title=tanda_penyingkat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="tanda penyingkat (page does not exist)">tanda penyingkat</a></span></li> <li>Malayalam: <span class="Mlym" lang="ml"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%82&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="വിശ്ലേഷം (page does not exist)">വിശ്ലേഷം</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ml.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%82" class="extiw" title="ml:വിശ്ലേഷം">(ml)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ml-Latn" class="tr Latn">viślēṣaṁ</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Manx: <span class="Latn" lang="gv"><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophee&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="apostrophee (page does not exist)">apostrophee</a></span></li> <li>Maori: <span class="Latn" lang="mi"><a href="/wiki/pakini#Maori" title="pakini">pakini</a></span></li> <li>Mongolian: <dl><dd>Cyrillic: <span class="Cyrl" lang="mn"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84#Mongolian" title="апостроф">апостроф</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="mn-Latn" class="tr Latn">apostrof</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></dd></dl></li> <li>Norwegian: <dl><dd>Bokmål: <span class="Latn" lang="nb"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Norwegian_Bokmål" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></dd> <dd>Nynorsk: <span class="Latn" lang="nn"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Norwegian_Nynorsk" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></dd></dl></li> <li>Persian: <dl><dd>Iranian Persian: <span class="Arab fa-Arab" lang="fa"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D8%A2%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="آپوستروف (page does not exist)">آپوسْتْروف</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fa.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81" class="extiw" title="fa:آپوستروف">(fa)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="fa-Latn" class="tr Latn">âpustruf</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Arab fa-Arab" lang="fa"><a href="/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81#Persian" title="آپاستروف">آپاسْتْروف</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="fa-Latn" class="tr Latn">âpâstruf</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></dd></dl></li> <li>Polish: <span class="Latn" lang="pl"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Polish" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrof" class="extiw" title="pl:apostrof">(pl)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Portuguese: <span class="Latn" lang="pt"><a href="/wiki/ap%C3%B3strofo#Portuguese" title="apóstrofo">apóstrofo</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/ap%C3%B3strofo" class="extiw" title="pt:apóstrofo">(pt)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Romanian: <span class="Latn" lang="ro"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Romanian" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ro.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrof" class="extiw" title="ro:apostrof">(ro)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="neuter gender">n</abbr></span></li> <li>Russian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="ru"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84#Russian" title="апостроф">апо́строф</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84" class="extiw" title="ru:апостроф">(ru)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ru-Latn" class="tr Latn">apóstrof</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Cyrl" lang="ru"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84#Russian" title="апостроф">апостро́ф</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84" class="extiw" title="ru:апостроф">(ru)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ru-Latn" class="tr Latn">apostróf</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Scottish Gaelic: <span class="Latn" lang="gd"><a href="/wiki/ascair#Scottish_Gaelic" title="ascair">ascair</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="gd"><a href="/wiki/asgair#Scottish_Gaelic" title="asgair">asgair</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Serbo-Croatian: <dl><dd>Cyrillic: <span class="Cyrl" lang="sh"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84#Serbo-Croatian" title="апостроф">а̀построф</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span>, <span class="Cyrl" lang="sh"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="изоставник (page does not exist)">изо̀ставник</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></dd> <dd>Latin: <span class="Latn" lang="sh"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Serbo-Croatian" title="apostrof">àpostrof</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://sh.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrof" class="extiw" title="sh:apostrof">(sh)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="sh"><a href="/wiki/izostavnik#Serbo-Croatian" title="izostavnik">izòstavnik</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://sh.wiktionary.org/wiki/izostavnik" class="extiw" title="sh:izostavnik">(sh)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></dd></dl></li> <li>Sinhalese: <span class="Sinh" lang="si"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%E0%B6%8B%E0%B6%A9%E0%B7%94_%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%9C%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%8F&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="උඩු කොමා (page does not exist)">උඩු කොමා</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="si-Latn" class="tr Latn">uḍu komā</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Slovak: <span class="Latn" lang="sk"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Slovak" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Slovene: <span class="Latn" lang="sl"><a href="/wiki/opu%C5%A1%C4%8Daj#Slovene" title="opuščaj">opuščaj</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://sl.wiktionary.org/wiki/opu%C5%A1%C4%8Daj" class="extiw" title="sl:opuščaj">(sl)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="sl"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Slovene" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://sl.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrof" class="extiw" title="sl:apostrof">(sl)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Spanish: <span class="Latn" lang="es"><a href="/wiki/ap%C3%B3strofo#Spanish" title="apóstrofo">apóstrofo</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/ap%C3%B3strofo" class="extiw" title="es:apóstrofo">(es)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="es"><a href="/wiki/ap%C3%B3strofe#Spanish" title="apóstrofe">apóstrofe</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/ap%C3%B3strofe" class="extiw" title="es:apóstrofe">(es)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Sranan Tongo: <span class="Latn" lang="srn"><a href="/w/index.php?title=kotimarki&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kotimarki (page does not exist)">kotimarki</a></span></li> <li>Swahili: <span class="Latn" lang="sw"><a href="/wiki/ritifaa#Swahili" title="ritifaa">ritifaa</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://sw.wiktionary.org/wiki/ritifaa" class="extiw" title="sw:ritifaa">(sw)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="sw"><a href="/wiki/apostrofi#Swahili" title="apostrofi">apostrofi</a></span></li> <li>Swedish: <span class="Latn" lang="sv"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Swedish" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrof" class="extiw" title="sv:apostrof">(sv)</a></span></li> <li>Tagalog: <span class="Latn" lang="tl"><a href="/wiki/kudlit#Tagalog" title="kudlit">kudlit</a></span></li> <li>Tajik: <span class="Cyrl" lang="tg"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84#Tajik" title="апостроф">апостроф</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="tg-Latn" class="tr Latn">apostrof</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Tatar: <span class="Cyrl" lang="tt"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84#Tatar" title="апостроф">апостроф</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="tt-Latn" class="tr Latn">apostrof</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Thai: <span class="Thai" lang="th"><a href="/wiki/%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%B5#Thai" title="อะพอสทรอฟี">อะพอสทรอฟี</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="th-Latn" class="tr Latn">à-pɔ́ɔs-trɔɔ-fîi</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Turkish: <span class="Latn" lang="tr"><a href="/w/index.php?title=kesme_i%C5%9Fareti&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kesme işareti (page does not exist)">kesme işareti</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/kesme_i%C5%9Fareti" class="extiw" title="tr:kesme işareti">(tr)</a></span></li> <li>Turkmen: <span class="Latn" lang="tk"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Turkmen" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://tk.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrof" class="extiw" title="tk:apostrof">(tk)</a></span></li> <li>Ukrainian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="uk"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84#Ukrainian" title="апостроф">апо́строф</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://uk.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84" class="extiw" title="uk:апостроф">(uk)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="uk-Latn" class="tr Latn">apóstrof</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Cyrl" lang="uk"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84#Ukrainian" title="апостроф">апостро́ф</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://uk.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84" class="extiw" title="uk:апостроф">(uk)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="uk-Latn" class="tr Latn">apostróf</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Uyghur: <span class="Arab ug-Arab" lang="ug"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D8%A6%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%89%D8%AA%D9%89%D8%B4_%D8%A8%DB%95%D9%84%DA%AF%D9%89%D8%B3%D9%89&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ئاجرىتىش بەلگىسى (page does not exist)">ئاجرىتىش بەلگىسى</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ug-Latn" class="tr Latn">ajritish belgisi</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Arab ug-Arab" lang="ug"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D9%89%D8%B3%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%89%D8%B4_%D8%A8%DB%95%D9%84%DA%AF%D9%89%D8%B3%D9%89&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ىسقارتىش بەلگىسى (page does not exist)">ىسقارتىش بەلگىسى</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ug-Latn" class="tr Latn">isqartish belgisi</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Uzbek: <span class="Latn" lang="uz"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Uzbek" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://uz.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrof" class="extiw" title="uz:apostrof">(uz)</a></span></li> <li>Vietnamese: <span class="Latn" lang="vi"><a href="/w/index.php?title=d%E1%BA%A5u_l%C6%B0%E1%BB%A3c&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="dấu lược (page does not exist)">dấu lược</a></span></li> <li>Welsh: <span class="Latn" lang="cy"><a href="/wiki/collnod#Welsh" title="collnod">collnod</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="cy"><a href="/wiki/sillgoll#Welsh" title="sillgoll">sillgoll</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Yiddish: <span class="Hebr" lang="yi"><a href="/wiki/%D7%90%D6%B7%D7%A4%D6%BC%D7%90%D6%B8%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%90%D6%B8%D7%A3#Yiddish" title="אַפּאָסטראָף">אַפּאָסטראָף</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="yi-Latn" class="tr Latn">apostrof</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="See_also">See also</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/apostrophe" title="w:apostrophe"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/15px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/23px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/30px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /></a></span> <b class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/apostrophe" class="extiw" title="w:apostrophe">apostrophe</a></b> on Wikipedia.<span class="interProject"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/apostrophe" class="extiw" title="w:apostrophe">Wikipedia </a></span></li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/punctuation" title="punctuation">Punctuation</a></b> </p> <div style="font-size:smaller"> <div class="derivedterms ul-column-count" data-column-count="5"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">apostrophe</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%27#Translingual" title="'">'</a></span></b> ) ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%99#Translingual" title="’">’</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/curly_brackets" title="curly brackets">curly brackets</a> or <a href="/wiki/brace" title="brace">braces</a> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">US</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/Unsupported_titles/%60lcub%60#Translingual" title="Unsupported titles/`lcub`">{</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/Unsupported_titles/%60rcub%60#Translingual" title="Unsupported titles/`rcub`">}</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/square_bracket" title="square bracket">square brackets</a> or <a href="/wiki/bracket" title="bracket">brackets</a> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">US</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/Unsupported_titles/%60lsqb%60#Translingual" title="Unsupported titles/`lsqb`">[</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/Unsupported_titles/%60rsqb%60#Translingual" title="Unsupported titles/`rsqb`">]</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/colon" title="colon">colon</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/Unsupported_titles/:#Translingual" title="Unsupported titles/:">:</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/comma" title="comma">comma</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/,#Translingual" title=",">,</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/dash" title="dash">dashes</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%92#Translingual" title="‒">‒</a></span></b> ) ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%93#Translingual" title="–">–</a></span></b> ) ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%94#Translingual" title="—">—</a></span></b> ) ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%95#Translingual" title="―">―</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/ellipsis" title="ellipsis">ellipsis</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%A6#Translingual" title="…">…</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/exclamation_mark" title="exclamation mark">exclamation mark</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/!#Translingual" title="!">!</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/fraction_slash" title="fraction slash">fraction slash</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%81%84#Translingual" title="⁄">⁄</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/guillemet" title="guillemet">guillemets</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%C2%AB#Translingual" title="«">«</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%C2%BB#Translingual" title="»">»</a></span></b> ) ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%B9#Translingual" title="‹">‹</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%BA#Translingual" title="›">›</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/hyphen" title="hyphen">hyphen</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/-#Translingual" title="-">-</a></span></b> ) ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%90#Translingual" title="‐">‐</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/interpunct" title="interpunct">interpunct</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%C2%B7#Translingual" title="·">·</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/interrobang" title="interrobang">interrobang</a> <i><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">rare</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span></i> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%BD#Translingual" title="‽">‽</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/bracket" title="bracket">brackets</a> or <a href="/wiki/parenthesis" title="parenthesis">parentheses</a> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">US, Canada</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/(#Translingual" title="(">(</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/)#Translingual" title=")">)</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/full_stop" title="full stop">full stop</a> or <a href="/wiki/period" title="period">period</a> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">US, Canada</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/Unsupported_titles/%60period%60#Translingual" title="Unsupported titles/`period`">.</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/question_mark" title="question mark">question mark</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%3F#Translingual" title="?">?</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/quotation_marks" title="quotation marks">quotation marks</a> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">formal</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%98#Translingual" title="‘">‘</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%99#Translingual" title="’">’</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%9A#Translingual" title="‚">‚</a></span></b> ) ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%9C#Translingual" title="“">“</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%9D#Translingual" title="”">”</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%9E#Translingual" title="„">„</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/quotation_marks" title="quotation marks">quotation marks</a> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">informal<span class="ib-comma qualifier-comma">,</span> computing</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%22#Translingual" title=""">"</a></span></b> ) ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%27#Translingual" title="'">'</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/semicolon" title="semicolon">semicolon</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/;#Translingual" title=";">;</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/slash" title="slash">slash</a> or <a href="/wiki/stroke" title="stroke">stroke</a> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">UK</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki//#Translingual" title="/">/</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/space" title="space">space</a> ( <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/Unsupported_titles/Space#Translingual" title="Unsupported titles/Space">] [</a></span> )</li></ul> </div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_2">Etymology 2</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Etymology 2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Latin">Latin</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Latin">apostrophe</a></i>, from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="w:Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a></span> <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%AE#Ancient_Greek" title="ἀποστροφή">ἀποστροφή</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">apostrophḗ</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, from <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%AD%CF%86%CF%89#Ancient_Greek" title="ἀποστρέφω">ἀποστρέφω</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">apostréphō</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">I turn away</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, from <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%80%CF%8C#Ancient_Greek" title="ἀπό">ἀπό</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">apó</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> + <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%AD%CF%86%CF%89#Ancient_Greek" title="στρέφω">στρέφω</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">stréphō</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">I turn</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Noun_2">Noun</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">apostrophe</strong> (<i><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#countable" title="Appendix:Glossary">countable</a> and <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable" title="Appendix:Glossary">uncountable</a></i>, <i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en p-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/apostrophes#English" title="apostrophes">apostrophes</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li><li class="senseid" id="English:_rhetoric"> <span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="/wiki/rhetoric" title="rhetoric">rhetoric</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> A sudden <a href="/wiki/exclamatory" title="exclamatory">exclamatory</a> piece of <a href="/wiki/dialogue" title="dialogue">dialogue</a> <a href="/wiki/addressed" title="addressed">addressed</a> to someone or something, especially <a href="/wiki/absent" title="absent">absent</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">[<span class="None" lang="und"><b>1835</b></span>, L<span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>arret<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span> Langley, <cite>A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="with Copious Illustrations from the British Poets, and Examples from the Roman Classics">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></cite>, Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1062248511">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OOJeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA28">page <span class="None" lang="und">28</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en"><i><b>Apostrophe</b></i> a bold digression makes,<br />Mov'd by some sudden thought the theme awakes.</span>]</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1842</b></span>, [anonymous collaborator of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon" class="extiw" title="w:Letitia Elizabeth Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</a>], chapter XXXIV, in <cite>Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances.<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="By L. E. L., (the Late Mrs. Maclean) Authoress of “Ethel Churchill,” “The Improvisatrice,” &c. In Three Volumes.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></cite>, volume II, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Colburn" class="extiw" title="w:Henry Colburn">Henry Colburn</a>,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="publisher, Great Marlborough Street.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1000392275">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ladyannegranardo02lell/page/139/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">139</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">The warm <b>apostrophe</b> of Riccardini to this little representative of his parents, whom he called "the son of his love, the child of his old age, the gift of his beloved niece, on the behalf of his angel-daughter," affected them all;...</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Derived_terms_2">Derived terms</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Derived terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/apostrophic#English" title="apostrophic">apostrophic</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/apostrophically#English" title="apostrophically">apostrophically</a></span></li> <li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/apostrophize#English" title="apostrophize">apostrophize</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Related_terms">Related terms</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Related terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/catastrophe#English" title="catastrophe">catastrophe</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Translations_2">Translations</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-sudden_piece_of_dialogue"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">sudden piece of dialogue</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="sudden piece of dialogue"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Arabic: <span class="Arab" lang="ar"><a href="/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AA#Arabic" title="التفات">اِلْتِفَات</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ar-Latn" class="tr Latn">iltifāt</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Armenian: <span class="Armn" lang="hy"><a href="/wiki/%D5%A1%D5%BA%D5%A1%D5%A9%D5%A1%D6%80%D6%81#Armenian" title="ապաթարց">ապաթարց</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://hy.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D5%A1%D5%BA%D5%A1%D5%A9%D5%A1%D6%80%D6%81" class="extiw" title="hy:ապաթարց">(hy)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="hy-Latn" class="tr Latn">apatʻarcʻ</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Asturian: <span class="Latn" lang="ast"><a href="/wiki/ap%C3%B3strofe#Asturian" title="apóstrofe">apóstrofe</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Bulgarian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="bg"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84#Bulgarian" title="апостроф">апостроф</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://bg.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84" class="extiw" title="bg:апостроф">(bg)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="bg-Latn" class="tr Latn">apostrof</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Catalan: <span class="Latn" lang="ca"><a href="/w/index.php?title=ap%C3%B2strofe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="apòstrofe (page does not exist)">apòstrofe</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>Czech: <span class="Latn" lang="cs"><a href="/wiki/apostrofa#Czech" title="apostrofa">apostrofa</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Danish: <span class="Latn" lang="da"><a href="/wiki/apostrofe#Danish" title="apostrofe">apostrofe</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="common gender">c</abbr></span></li> <li>Dutch: <span class="Latn" lang="nl"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Dutch" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrof" class="extiw" title="nl:apostrof">(nl)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/apostrofi#Finnish" title="apostrofi">apostrofi</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrofi" class="extiw" title="fi:apostrofi">(fi)</a></span></li> <li>French: <span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#French">apostrophe</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrophe" class="extiw" title="fr:apostrophe">(fr)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Galician: <span class="Latn" lang="gl"><a href="/wiki/ap%C3%B3strofe#Galician" title="apóstrofe">apóstrofe</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>German: <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Apostrophe#German" title="Apostrophe">Apostrophe</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Apostrophe" class="extiw" title="de:Apostrophe">(de)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Greek: <span class="Grek" lang="el"><a href="/wiki/%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%AE#Greek" title="αποστροφή">αποστροφή</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%AE" class="extiw" title="el:αποστροφή">(el)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="el-Latn" class="tr Latn">apostrofí</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Interlingua: <span class="Latn" lang="ia"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Interlingua">apostrophe</a></span></li> <li>Irish: <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/aitheasc#Irish" title="aitheasc">aitheasc</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/apastr%C3%B3f#Irish" title="apastróf">apastróf</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Latin: <span class="Latn" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/apostropha#Latin" title="apostropha">apostropha</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Lithuanian: <span class="Latn" lang="lt"><a href="/wiki/apostrofa#Lithuanian" title="apostrofa">apostrofa</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Macedonian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="mk"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B0#Macedonian" title="апострофа">апостро́фа</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="mk-Latn" class="tr Latn">apostrófa</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Polish: <span class="Latn" lang="pl"><a href="/wiki/apostrofa#Polish" title="apostrofa">apostrofa</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrofa" class="extiw" title="pl:apostrofa">(pl)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Portuguese: <span class="Latn" lang="pt"><a href="/wiki/ap%C3%B3strofe#Portuguese" title="apóstrofe">apóstrofe</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/ap%C3%B3strofe" class="extiw" title="pt:apóstrofe">(pt)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Romanian: <span class="Latn" lang="ro"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Romanian" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ro.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrof" class="extiw" title="ro:apostrof">(ro)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="neuter gender">n</abbr></span></li> <li>Serbo-Croatian: <dl><dd>Cyrillic: <span class="Cyrl" lang="sh"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B0#Serbo-Croatian" title="апострофа">апо̀строфа</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></dd> <dd>Roman: <span class="Latn" lang="sh"><a href="/wiki/apostrofa#Serbo-Croatian" title="apostrofa">apòstrofa</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://sh.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrofa" class="extiw" title="sh:apostrofa">(sh)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></dd></dl></li> <li>Spanish: <span class="Latn" lang="es"><a href="/wiki/ap%C3%B3strofe#Spanish" title="apóstrofe">apóstrofe</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/ap%C3%B3strofe" class="extiw" title="es:apóstrofe">(es)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr> or <abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span></li> <li>Swedish: <span class="Latn" lang="sv"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Swedish" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostrof" class="extiw" title="sv:apostrof">(sv)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="gender incomplete">?</abbr></span></li> <li>Welsh: <span class="Latn" lang="cy"><a href="/wiki/cyfarchiad#Welsh" title="cyfarchiad">cyfarchiad</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://cy.wiktionary.org/wiki/cyfarchiad" class="extiw" title="cy:cyfarchiad">(cy)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anagrams">Anagrams</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Anagrams"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/protophase#English" title="protophase">protophase</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="French">French</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: French"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_2">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:French_pronunciation" title="Appendix:French pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/a.pɔs.tʁɔf/</span></li> <li><span class="homophones"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#homophone" title="Appendix:Glossary">Homophones</a>: <span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/apostrophent#French" title="apostrophent">apostrophent</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/apostrophes#French" title="apostrophes">apostrophes</a></span></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r50165410"><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio<span class="ib-colon qualifier-colon">:</span></td><td class="audiofile"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_3" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="Fr-apostrophe.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Fr-apostrophe.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/98/Fr-apostrophe.ogg/Fr-apostrophe.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:Fr-apostrophe.ogg" title="File:Fr-apostrophe.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_1_2">Etymology 1</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Etymology 1"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Latin">Latin</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/apostrophus#Latin" title="apostrophus">apostrophus</a></i>, from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="w:Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a></span> <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%80%CF%8C%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" title="ἀπόστροφος">ἀπόστροφος</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">apóstrophos</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">accent of elision</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, a noun use of an adjective from <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%AD%CF%86%CF%89#Ancient_Greek" title="ἀποστρέφω">ἀποστρέφω</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">apostréphō</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">to turn away</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Noun_3">Noun</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="fr">apostrophe</strong> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> (<i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-fr p-form-of" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/apostrophes#French" title="apostrophes">apostrophes</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="/wiki/orthography" title="orthography">orthography</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">apostrophe</a></span></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Descendants">Descendants</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Descendants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="desc-arr" title="borrowed">→</span> English: <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">apostrophe</a></span><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r68481116">.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title]{cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title="uncertain"]{font-size:.7em;vertical-align:super}</style></li> <li><span class="desc-arr" title="borrowed">→</span> Romanian: <span class="Latn" lang="ro"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Romanian" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116"></li> <li><span class="desc-arr" title="borrowed">→</span> Russian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="ru"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84#Russian" title="апостроф">апо́строф</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ru-Latn" class="tr Latn">apóstrof</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span><ul><li><span class="desc-arr" title="borrowed">→</span> Azerbaijani: <span class="Latn" lang="az"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Azerbaijani" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116"></li></ul></li> <li><span class="desc-arr" title="borrowed">→</span> Persian: <span class="Arab fa-Arab" lang="fa"><a href="/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81#Persian" title="آپاستروف">آپاستروف</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="fa-Latn" class="tr Latn">âpâstruf</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116"></li> <li><span class="desc-arr" title="borrowed">→</span> Turkish: <span class="Latn" lang="tr"><a href="/wiki/apostrof#Turkish" title="apostrof">apostrof</a></span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_2_2">Etymology 2</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Etymology 2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#loanword" title="Appendix:Glossary">Borrowed</a> from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Latin">Latin</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/apostropha#Latin" title="apostropha">apostropha</a></i>, <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Latin">apostrophe</a></i>, from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="w:Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a></span> <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%AE#Ancient_Greek" title="ἀποστροφή">ἀποστροφή</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">apostrophḗ</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, from <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%AD%CF%86%CF%89#Ancient_Greek" title="ἀποστρέφω">ἀποστρέφω</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">apostréphō</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">to turn away</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, from <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%80%CF%8C#Ancient_Greek" title="ἀπό">ἀπό</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">apó</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> + <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%AD%CF%86%CF%89#Ancient_Greek" title="στρέφω">στρέφω</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">stréphō</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">to turn</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Noun_4">Noun</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="fr">apostrophe</strong> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> (<i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-fr p-form-of" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/apostrophes#French" title="apostrophes">apostrophes</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="/wiki/rhetoric" title="rhetoric">rhetoric</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">apostrophe</a></span></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Related_terms_2">Related terms</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Related terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/apostropher#French" title="apostropher">apostropher</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_3">Etymology 3</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Etymology 3"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>See the etymology of the corresponding <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#lemma" title="Appendix:Glossary">lemma</a> form. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Verb">Verb</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Verb"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="fr">apostrophe</strong></span> </p> <ol><li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention">inflection of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/apostropher#French" title="apostropher">apostropher</a></i></span>:</span> <ol><li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention"><span class="inflection-of-conjoined"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#first_person" title="Appendix:Glossary">first</a><span class="inflection-of-sep">/</span><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#third_person" title="Appendix:Glossary">third-person</a></span> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#singular_number" title="Appendix:Glossary">singular</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#present_tense" title="Appendix:Glossary">present</a> <span class="inflection-of-conjoined"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#indicative_mood" title="Appendix:Glossary">indicative</a><span class="inflection-of-sep">/</span><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#subjunctive_mood" title="Appendix:Glossary">subjunctive</a></span></span></li> <li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#second_person" title="Appendix:Glossary">second-person</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#singular_number" title="Appendix:Glossary">singular</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#imperative_mood" title="Appendix:Glossary">imperative</a></span></li></ol></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/apostrophe/">apostrophe</a>”, in <cite><span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%A9sor_de_la_langue_fran%C3%A7aise_informatis%C3%A9" class="extiw" title="w:Trésor de la langue française informatisé">Trésor de la langue française informatisé</a></span> <span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>Digitized Treasury of the French Language<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></cite>, <span class="None" lang="und">2012</span></span></span>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Latin">Latin</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Latin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology">Etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="w:Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a></span> <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%AE#Ancient_Greek" title="ἀποστροφή">ἀποστροφή</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">apostrophḗ</span>, literally <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">a turning away</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, from <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%AD%CF%86%CF%89#Ancient_Greek" title="ἀποστρέφω">ἀποστρέφω</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">apostréphō</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">I turn away</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_3">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="usage-label-accent"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Classical Latin">Classical Latin</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Latin_pronunciation" title="Appendix:Latin pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/aˈpos.tro.pʰeː/</span>, <span class="IPA">[äˈpɔs̠t̪rɔpʰeː]</span></li> <li><span class="usage-label-accent"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_phonology_and_orthography#Ecclesiastical_pronunciation" class="extiw" title="w:Latin phonology and orthography">modern Italianate Ecclesiastical</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Latin_pronunciation" title="Appendix:Latin pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/aˈpos.tro.fe/</span>, <span class="IPA">[äˈpɔst̪rofe]</span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_5">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="la">apostrophē</strong> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> (<i>genitive</i> <b class="Latn" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/apostrophes#Latin" title="apostrophes">apostrophēs</a></b>)</span>; <i><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Latin_first_declension" title="Appendix:Latin first declension">first declension</a></i> </p> <ol><li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention">Alternative form of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/apostropha#Latin" title="apostropha">apostropha</a></i></span></span></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Declension">Declension</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Declension"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Latin_first_declension" title="Appendix:Latin first 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<td><span class="Latn form-of lang-la gen|p-form-of origin-apostrophē" lang="la"><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostropharum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="apostropharum (page does not exist)">apostrophārum</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/dative_case" title="dative case">dative</a> </th> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-la dat|s-form-of origin-apostrophē" lang="la"><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="apostrophae (page does not exist)">apostrophae</a></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-la dat|p-form-of origin-apostrophē" lang="la"><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="apostrophis (page does not exist)">apostrophīs</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/accusative_case" title="accusative case">accusative</a> </th> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-la acc|s-form-of origin-apostrophē" lang="la"><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="apostrophen (page does not exist)">apostrophēn</a></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-la acc|p-form-of origin-apostrophē" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/apostrophas#Latin" title="apostrophas">apostrophās</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/ablative_case" title="ablative case">ablative</a> </th> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-la abl|s-form-of origin-apostrophē" lang="la"><strong class="selflink">apostrophē</strong></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-la abl|p-form-of origin-apostrophē" lang="la"><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="apostrophis (page does not exist)">apostrophīs</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/vocative_case" title="vocative case">vocative</a> </th> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-la voc|s-form-of origin-apostrophē" lang="la"><strong class="selflink">apostrophē</strong></span> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-la voc|p-form-of origin-apostrophē" lang="la"><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="apostrophae (page does not exist)">apostrophae</a></span> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References">References</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059:entry=apostrophe"><span class="Latn" lang="la">apostrophe</span></a>”, in <span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (<span class="None" lang="und">1879</span>) <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Latin_Dictionary" class="extiw" title="w:A Latin Dictionary">A Latin Dictionary</a></cite>, Oxford: Clarendon Press</span></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://micmap.org/dicfro/search/gaffiot/apostrophe">apostrophe</a> in <span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">Gaffiot, Félix (<span class="None" lang="und">1934</span>) <cite>Dictionnaire illustré latin-français</cite>, Hachette.</span></span></li></ul>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&oldid=82635488">https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=apostrophe&oldid=82635488</a>"</div></div> <div 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