punctus versus
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin pūnctus versus (literally “facing mark”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌpʌŋktəs ˈvɜːsəs/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌpʌŋktəs ˈvɚsəs/
Noun
punctus versus
- (palaeography) A medieval punctuation mark marking the end of a sentence (approximately ;)
- 1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect, Influences on The Application of Punctuation, page 74:
- […] moreover by turning the punctus after fiant into a punctus versus, he has repointed the two verses as a single sententia.
- 2011 July 22, Tadao Kudouchi, Akio Oizumi; Jacek Fisiak, editors, English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172:
- Thus the basic punctuation marks used in English manuscripts of the eleventh-thirteenth centuries are: the simple point, the punctus elevatus, the punctus versus, and the punctus interrogativus.
- 2015 December 23, Mary P. Richards, editor, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 387:
- […] the punctus versus is used at the close of the sentence and after words introducing direct speech […]
See also
- punctus
- punctus circumflexus
- punctus elevatus
- punctus flexus
- punctus interrogativus