perispomene
nounEtymology From Ancient Greek περισπωμένη (perispōménē).
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The circumflex ⟨◌͂⟩, a diacritical mark used in the polytonic script of Greek.
- The perispomene (῀) is an accent like any other, on syllables originally long.1956, Ary H. Crooson, “Greek at a Glance”, in Constantine Divry, editor, Divry’s Guide to Greece and Information Manual, New York, N.Y.: D. C. Divry, Inc., →OCLC, part I (Modern Greece, General Information), page 48:
- The accents ´ oxeia (acute) bareia ` (grave) and ῀ perispomene (circumflex) were the early prosodic recitation marks for the Gospels and lessons.1988, Cyprus Today, volumes 26–27, Nicosia: Public Information Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15:
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- At the time of Romanos, the special prosodic value of the perispomene was completely lost, so that -ών and -ῶν were perfectly homophone.2012, Cyril Aslanov, “Romanos the Melodist and Palestinian Piyyut: Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Perspectives”, in Robert Bonfil, Oded Irshai, Guy G[edalyah] Stroumsa, Rina Talgam, editors, Jews in Byzantium: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture; 14), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, part II (Cultural Encounters and Transmission of Knowledge), footnote 19, page 620:
- Finally, the mordent tone, usually represented by the perispomene, is instead marked with an x above the vowel.2019 April 12, J. S. Ling, “Tones”, in Authoritative Guide to the Katalopsi Constructed Language, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, chapter 5 (Orthography), section 2 (Compositionality):
- Related terms
- perispome, perispomenon