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1. Acute Accent

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   The modern form of the acute accent is directly traceable to Greek orthography, where it was initially utilized in the Koine period to mark the stressed syllable ($\acute{\alpha}$). This usage persisted through Byzantine scribal traditions. Its subsequent adoption into Latin orthography, however, was not primarily for stress, but rather as a quick notational shorthand for eliding the syllable $es$ in post-Classical Latin, leading to for…