απόστροφος
See also: ἀπόστροφος
Greek edit
Etymology edit
Learnedly, from Hellenistic Koine Greek ἀπόστροφος (apóstrophos), substantivised feminine of the ancient adjective with sense: "turning away from, averted", from verb ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō).[1] From ἀπό (apó) + στροφ- of verb στρέφω (stréphō) + ending -ος (-os).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
απόστροφος • (apóstrofos) f (plural απόστροφοι)
- (typography) apostrophe, the character ’
Usage notes edit
For Greek texts:
- It takes the place of a vowel which is omitted in pronunciation. The space separating the two words is retained, e.g.
- In practice, especially when typing, the simple typographic apostrophe ' (U+0027 APOSTROPHE, HTML
'
) is used instead of the ʼ (U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE, HTMLʼ
) (a quotation mark U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) used in typography, texts, books.
Declension edit
declension of απόστροφος
case \ number | singular | plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | απόστροφος • | απόστροφοι • |
genitive | αποστρόφου • | αποστρόφων • |
accusative | απόστροφο • | αποστρόφους • |
vocative | απόστροφε •, απόστροφο • | απόστροφοι • |
Related terms edit
See also edit
- see also: Greek Punctuation and Greek alphabet (Diacritics)
References edit
- ^ απόστροφος - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.