Punctus

punctus

1. (paleography) The basic dot (‧) used to end a sentence in medieval punctuation (ancestral to the full stop/period).
• 1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect, In the sacerdotal prayers in col. a the punctuation is by punctus flexus, punctus elevatus and ''punctus.
• 22 July 2011, Tadao Kudouchi, English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan, The most common item of punctuation was the punctus or point.
• 31 August 2015, Handbook of Medieval Culture, Curiously, the punctus versus was largely replaced with a punctus by ca.1100.