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Meaning of interpunct | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The punctuation mark ⟨·⟩.

Equivalents

Català punt volat
Deutsch Mittelpunkt
Español interpunto
Italiano interpunct
日本語 中黒
한국어 가운뎃점
Latina interpunctus
Português ponto mediano

Examples

“As is to be expected in every good inscription of the period, the interpunct is used regularly and systematically throughout to divide words from one another. As is usual, the interpunct is frequently omitted between a monosyllabic preposition and the noun that it governs, thus presumably indicating that the preposition was treated as a proclitic. [...] I feel certain that the interpunct used within compound verbs on the Ancyran text does not differ in any way from the interpunct normally used between words ; [...].”
“An interpunct is a typographic glyph consisting of a vertically centered dot and used to indicated syllabic separation of words. Also called interpoint, middle dot or raised dot.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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