interpunct

English

Etymology

From Latin interpunctus, from inter- (“between, mid-”) + punctus (“point”).

Noun

interpunct (plural interpuncts)

1. (typography) The punctuation mark ⟨·⟩.

Synonyms

• middot, centered dot, middle dot, space dot, interpoint; decimal point (UK); come (obsolete)

Translations

punctuation mark

• Catalan: punt volat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 间隔号 (zh) (jiāngéhào)

• Dutch: hoge punt, halfhoge punt m
• Esperanto: meza punkto
• French: point médian (fr) m, point en haut m
• German: Mittelpunkt (de) m
• Hungarian: középső pont
• Japanese: 中黒 (なかぐろ, nakaguro)
• Korean: 가운뎃점 (ko) (gaundetjeom)
• Polish: kropka środkowa f
• Portuguese: ponto mediano (pt) m
• Swedish: halvhög punkt c
• Ukrainian: інтерпункт m (interpunkt)

See also

Punctuation

• apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
• curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } )
• square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ ] )
• colon ( : )
• comma ( , )
• dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
• ellipsis ( … )
• exclamation mark ( ! )
• fraction slash ( ⁄ )
• guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
• hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
• interpunct ( · )
• interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
• brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) )
• full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . )
• question mark ( ? )
• quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
• quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
• semicolon ( ; )
• slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
• space ( ] [ )