high dot

Noun

high dot (plural high dots)

1. Synonym of high point: · or ·.
   • At the end of a complete sentence (Latin periodus), the speaker paused to take on air, and that pause was sometimes indicated with a high dot ·. A speaker might also pause when he had covered a large portion of a sentence − a member; in Latin this was a colon, the same word used for the “great...1963, David Mellinkoff, The Language of the Law, Little, Brown and Company
   • Blank also accepts Schmidt’s suggestion [...] that the μέση στιγμή was invented in part to fill the space in the line between the high dot (στιγμή or distinctio) and the low dot (ὑποστιγμή or subdistinctio).1985, Thomas N. Habinek, The Colometry of Latin Prose, University of California Press, page 47

   Synonyms:

   high point