posituraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /pɒzɪˈtjʊəɹə/, /pɒzɪˈtʃʊəɹə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑzəˈtʊəɹə/

名詞

positura (複数形 positurae)

1. A stroke added to a medieval punctus; a punctuation mark created by addition of such a stroke.
   • 1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect‎^[1], Plates and Commentaries, page 197:

     The positurae mark those pauses in the text which require the celebrant to inflect the recitation tone […]

   • 2011 July 22, Tadao Kudouchi, Akio Oizumi; Jacek Fisiak, editors, English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan‎^[2], De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172:

     The positurae thus indicated not only the "appropriate melodic formula", but also a pause and therefore a rhythmical and syntactic break which it is the primary function of punctuation to mark.

   • 2015, Benjamin Pohl, Dudo of Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum: Tradition, Innovation and Memory‎^[3], York Medieval Press, →ISBN, Introduction, page 19:

     After all, it was the revision of the Cistercian liturgy that helped facilitate the widespread use of positurae, particularly the punctus flexus and punctus elevatus.