As nouns the difference between interpunct and hypodiastole
is that interpunct is a punctuation mark consisting of a dot () while hypodiastole is 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.
interpunct
Noun
(
en noun)
A punctuation mark consisting of a dot ()
Synonyms
* centered dot
* middle dot
* space dot
* interpoint
hypodiastole
Noun
(
en noun)
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 . 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 indended for its appearance in historical texts.
Synonyms
* diastole
Related terms
* enotikon, Greek hyphen: the corresponding mark used to combine terms which might otherwise be read separately 