Hypodiastole
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Hypodiastole
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The hypodiastole, also known as a diastole, was an interpunct developed in late Ancient and Byzantine Greek texts before the separation of words by spaces was common. In the scriptio continua then used, a group of letters might have separate meanings as a single word or as a pair of words. The papyrological hyphen (enotikon) showed a group of letters should be read together as a single word, and the hypodiastole showed that they should be taken separately. Compare "ὅ,τι" ("whatever") to "ὅτι" ("
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Former Greek inter-word punctuation marker
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypodiastole
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2022-10-01T01:49:59Z
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