punctus circumflexus
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin pūnctus circumflexus (literally “bent-around mark”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌpʌŋktəs sɜːkəmˈflɛksəs/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌpʌŋktəs sɚkəmˈflɛksəs/
Noun
punctus circumflexus
- (palaeography) A medieval punctuation mark indicating a short pause (approximately '̣).
- Synonym: punctus flexus
- 1953, Occasional Papers, volume 3, University of Cambridge, page 10:
- […] MS. Bodley 340, going back to an early form of the text, has confused indications that such was intended: after 'þa' it has a punctus circumflexus […]
- 2004, George D. Gopen, The Sense of Structure: Writing from the Reader's Perspective, Pearson Longman, →ISBN, page 170:
- There was an entirely separate set of marks to coach the raising and lowering of the voice in oral delivery -- including the punctus elevatus, the punctus interrogotivus[sic], and the punctus circumflexus.
- 2011 July 22, Tadao Kudouchi, Akio Oizumi; Jacek Fisiak, editors, English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172:
- The punctus circumflexus does not seem to have been used commonly in manuscripts of other than liturgical texts.
See also
- punctus
- punctus elevatus
- punctus interrogativus
- punctus versus