单词 | diacritical point |
释义 | > as lemmasdiacritical point c. In Semitic alphabets: any of the dots, minute strokes, or groups of these which are placed over, under, or within the letters in order to indicate the vowels. Also (in Hebrew): such a mark used to indicate variation or doubling of a consonant, stress accent, punctuation, etc.; (in Arabic and Persian) such a mark used to distinguish consonants otherwise identical in form, as ﻧ n, ﺗ t, ﺛ ṯ, ﺑ b, ﻳ y, ﭘ p, etc. (in full diacritical point). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > written character not a letter > diacritic accentOE tittle1538 verge1555 point1614 diacritic1866 supersign1907 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 102 The three words haue ouer the Aliphs their point Vashlu. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 365 That Argument..against the Antiquity of the Hebrew Points, or Vowels. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 312 The Manner of writing Hebrew without Points. 1776 J. Richardson Gram. Arabick Lang. iii. 11 When final..it [ﻩ] has often two points above. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 219/1 In it [the Cufic character] the Koran was written, originally without diacritical points and vowels. 1891 A. F. Kirkpatrick Bk. Psalms i. Introd. vii. 51 The present elaborate system of vowel marks or ‘points’, commonly called the ‘Massoretic punctuation’ or ‘vocalisation’. 1913 N.E.D at Tittle Any one of the Hebrew and Arabic vowel-points and accents. 1963 D. M. Matheson tr. F. Schuon Understanding Islam ii. 61 The Basmalah is itself contained in the first letter bā and..this is contained in its diacritical point. 2003 Internat. Encycl. Linguistics II. 139/2 They were reduced to writing in the post-Talmudic period..through the insertion of ‘points’ into the received consonantal text. < as lemmas |
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