English
gravo-acute accent
From gravo- + acute + accent.
Latin acuō ‘to make pointed, sharpen, whet’
Latin acūtus ‘sharp, sharpened’
Latin acūta
Middle English acute ‘of a disease or fever: starting suddenly and…’
English acute
Today it means
noun A dipping tone, or the diacritic that denotes it, similar in form to the breve (˘) and the háček (ˇ).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / gravo-acute accent