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perispomene en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From Ancient Greek περισπωμένη (perispōménē).

Meanings

1. The circumflex ⟨◌͂⟩, a diacritical mark used in the polytonic script of Greek.
   • Finally, the mordent tone, usually represented by the perispomene, is instead marked with an x above the vowel. 2019 April 12, J. S. Ling, “Tones”, in Authoritative Guide to the Katalopsi Constructed Language, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, chapter 5 (Orthography), section 2 (Compositionality):
   • At the time of Romanos, the special prosodic value of the perispomene was completely lost, so that -ών and -ῶν were perfectly homophone. 2012, Cyril Aslanov, “Romanos the Melodist and Palestinian Piyyut: Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Perspectives”, in Robert Bonfil, Oded Irshai, Guy G[edalyah] Stroumsa, Rina Talgam, editors, Jews in Byzantium: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture; 14), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, part II (Cultural Encounters and Transmission of Knowledge), footnote 19, page 620:
   • The accents ´ oxeia (acute) bareia ` (grave) and ῀ perispomene (circumflex) were the early prosodic recitation marks for the Gospels and lessons. 1988, Cyprus Today, volumes 26–27, Nicosia: Public Information Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15:
   • The perispomene (῀) is an accent like any other, on syllables originally long. 1956, Ary H. Crooson, “Greek at a Glance”, in Constantine Divry, editor, Divry’s Guide to Greece and Information Manual, New York, N.Y.: D. C. Divry, Inc., →OCLC, part I (Modern Greece, General Information), page 48:

Forms

Relateds

perispome · perispomenon

perispomene en · ADJ · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of perispomenon.
   alt of perispomenon
   • This locative might be at the origin of our adverbs. However, the locative accent was perispomene, not oxytonic, a problem for which there has been no satisfactory explanation so far. 2007, Catalin Anghelina, “On Some Adverbs with Variable Endings in Ancient Greek”, in Glotta, volumes 82–83, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:
   • Note the caesura media; the syllable preceding it is perispomene, as is very often the case. 1980, J[an] C[oenraad] Kamerbeek, “Third Epeisodion 865-1080”, in The Plays of Sophocles, part VI (The Philoctetes), Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, verse 907, page 130:
   • There are a number of textual issues in connection with αἰαῖ. Firstly, the proper accentuation is uncertain. There is no agreement in the manuscripts on whether it should be oxytonic or perispomene. 2015, Lars Nordgren, “αἰαῖ—aiai”, in Greek Interjections: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs; 273), Berlin; Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Semantics), section 6 (Semantics—Category 1), subsection 4 (Interjections expressive of lamentation), footnote 184, page 130: