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English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin pūnctus interrogātīvus (“question mark”).
Pronunciation
Noun
punctus interrogativus
- (palaeography) A medieval question mark, ⟨⹔⟩, possibly the ancestor of the modern mark ⟨?⟩.
1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect, Glossary, pages 306–307:punctus percontativus A reversed, but not inverted punctus interrogativus […] used in the 16th and 17th centuries to indicate the end of a percontatio.
2000, Jane Roberts, Janet Laughland Nelson, editors, Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Related Themes in Memory of Lynne Grundy, King's College (University of London), →ISBN, page 537:[…] manuscript punctuation has a punctus elevatus after the interjections and a punctus interrogativus at the end of the sentence.
2015 December 23, Mary P. Richards, editor, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 387:[…] although none of these happend to have occasion to use the punctus interrogativus.
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