See also: diese French Etymology Borrowed from Latin diesis (“quarter-tone”), from Ancient Greek δίεσις (díesis). Pronunciation IPA(key): /djɛz/ Audio (Paris):(file) Rhymes: -ɛz Noun dièse m (plural dièses) (music, history) diesis (music) sharp hash (punctuation mark) Descendants → Bulgarian: диез (diez) → Macedonian: диез (diez) → Persian: دیز (diyez) → Russian: диез (dijez) → Turkish: diyez See also bémol bécarre Further reading “dièse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. Anagrams idées Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.