Tilde (noun)
til-da
An accent (~) placed over Spanish n when pronounced ny (as in señor) or Portuguese a or o when nasalized (as in São Paulo), or over a vowel in phonetic transcription, indicating nasalization.
Mid 19th century from Spanish, based on Latin titulus (see title).
Example sentences
“The missing tilde meant it was being pronounced incorrectly.”
Mackle (verb) mak-ul to blur, as from a double impression in printing First used in 1585–95. A variant of earlier macle, makle; earlier macule (from the Latin macula, “spot, blemish”).…