perispomene

From Ancient Greek περισπωμένη (perispōménē).

• perispomeni (from Modern Greek)

perispomene

1. The circumflex ⟨◌͂⟩, a diacritical mark used in the polytonic script of Greek.
   • 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 perispomene (῀) is an accent like any other, on syllables originally long.

   • 1988, Cyprus Today, volumes 26–27, Nicosia: Public Information Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15:

     The accents ´ oxeia (acute) bareia ` (grave) and ῀ perispomene (circumflex) were the early prosodic recitation marks for the Gospels and lessons.

   • 2012, Cyril Aslanov, “Romanos the Melodist and Palestinian Piyyut: Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Perspectives”, in Robert Bonfil, Oded Irshai, Guy G 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:

     At the time of Romanos, the special prosodic value of the perispomene was completely lost, so that -ών and -ῶν were perfectly homophone.

   • 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):

     Finally, the mordent tone, usually represented by the perispomene, is instead marked with an x above the vowel.

perispomene (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of perispomenon.
   • 1980, J C Kamerbeek, “Third Epeisodion 865-1080”, in The Plays of Sophocles, part VI (The Philoctetes), Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, verse 907, page 130:

     Note the caesura media; the syllable preceding it is perispomene, as is very often the case.

   • 2007, Catalin Anghelina, “On Some Adverbs with Variable Endings in Ancient Greek”, in Glotta, volumes 82–83, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:

     This locative might be at the origin of our adverbs. However, the locative accent was perispomene, not oxytonic, a problem for which there has been no satisfactory explanation so far.

   • 2015, Lars Nordgren, “αἰαῖ—aiai”, in Greek Interjections: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs; 273), Berlin; Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Semantics), section 6 (Semantics—Category 1), subsection 4 (Interjections expressive of lamentation), footnote 184, page 130:

     There are a number of textual issues in connection with αἰαῖ. Firstly, the proper accentuation is uncertain. There is no agreement in the manuscripts on whether it should be oxytonic or perispomene.

perispomene f

1. plural of perispomena