raised dot

raised dot (plural raised dots)

1. (grammar) Synonym of high point: · or · (the Greek punctuation mark used in place of a semicolon in English).
   • 2003, The Chicago Manual of Style, University of Chicago Press, page 437:

     In Greek the period and comma are the same as in English; the colon and semicolon are both represented by a raised dot (·); the question mark is represented by a semicolon.

   • 2014, Rodney J. Decker, Reading Koine Greek: an introduction and integrated workbook, Baker Academic, page 17:

     Commas and periods are the same as English: θεός, θεόν.
     The Greek semicolon (or colon) is a raised dot: θεός·
     A question mark looks like our English semicolon: θεός;
     [...]
     Greek does not distinguish the colon from a semicolon as we do in English. The raised dot (sometimes called a middle point or a mid-dot) in Greek serves to indicate either function, though it is most commonly the equivalent of an English semicolon.

2. (typography) ⸳ (the Ancient Greek punctuation mark, sitting between the height of the period and the height of the high point, used for a short pause).
   • 2010 September 21, Michael Everson, Stephen Emmel, Siegfried G. Richter, Susana Pedro, António Emiliano, Revised proposal to add additional characters for Greek, Latin, and Coptic to the UCS‎^[1]:

     In UCS terms, the stigmē teleia is equivalent to U+00B7 the MIDDLE DOT (being at x-height vis-à-vis Greek and Coptic uncial), the hypostigmē is equivalent to U+002E the FULL STOP (being on the baseline), and the equivalent to the stigmē mesē is RAISED DOT proposed here. Note that the specific definition of the raised dot is that its height is between the full stop and the middle dot.

• In Unicode, the names "full stop" , "raised dot", "middle dot" (or "ano teleia") and are used respectively for the low dot, mid dot and high dot in Greek, Ancient Greek or Coptic contexts.