positura
English edit
Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin positūra, feminine noun formed from positūrus (“about to place”). Doublet of posture.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɒzɪˈtjʊəɹə/, /pɒzɪˈtʃʊəɹə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɑzəˈtʊəɹə/
Noun edit
positura (plural positurae)
- A stroke added to a medieval punctus; a punctuation mark created by addition of such a stroke.
- 1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect[1], Plates and Commentaries, page 197:
- The positurae mark those pauses in the text which require the celebrant to inflect the recitation tone […]
- 2011 July 22, Tadao Kudouchi, edited by Akio Oizumi and Jacek Fisiak, English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan[2], De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172:
- The positurae thus indicated not only the "appropriate melodic formula", but also a pause and therefore a rhythmical and syntactic break which it is the primary function of punctuation to mark.
- 2015, Benjamin Pohl, Dudo of Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum: Tradition, Innovation and Memory[3], York Medieval Press, →ISBN, Introduction, page 19:
- After all, it was the revision of the Cistercian liturgy that helped facilitate the widespread use of positurae, particularly the punctus flexus and punctus elevatus.
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin positūra. Doublet of postura.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [pu.ziˈtu.ɾə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [po.ziˈtu.ɾə]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [po.ziˈtu.ɾa]
Noun edit
positura f (plural positures)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “positura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Latin edit
Participle edit
positūra
- inflection of positūrus:
Participle edit
positūrā
References edit
- “positura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- positura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.