hypodiastole
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English
Etymology
From Latin hypodiastolē, from Ancient Greek ὑποδιαστολή (hupodiastolḗ), from ὑπό (hupó, “under, lower”) + διαστολή (diastolḗ, “separation, distinction”), from διαστέλλω (diastéllō, “separate”), from διά (diá, “through, during”) + στέλλω (stéllō, “order, arrange”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hypodiastole (plural hypodiastoles)
- A mark ⟨⸒⟩ in late Classical and Byzantine Greek used as a form of interpunct to show two words should be read separately in situations where they might otherwise be confused with an identically spelled single word.
Usage notes
Eventually entirely conflated with the similarly-shaped Greek comma and then made obsolete by the advent of spacing, the hypodiastole now only appears in a few cases, such as distinguishing ό,τι (ó,ti) and ότι (óti). In all such modern cases, the Greek comma (identical in Unicode with the Latin comma) is used. The Unicode point for the hypodiastole is solely intended for its appearance in historical texts.
Synonyms
Related terms
- enotikon, Greek hyphen: the corresponding mark used to combine terms which might otherwise be read separately
Translations
written mark used to separate words and to distinguish homographs
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