apostrophus – English noun declension

English noun forms of apostrophus

Noun: apostrophus
Singularapostrophus
Pluralapostrophi

Sample Sentences

  • Vowels suffer also this apostrophus before the consonant h. [1640, Ben Jonson, The English Grammar: Book 2: Of Syntax:]
  • Not that any examples are wanting to prove that the ancients did use the apostrophus in prose; for it was scarecely possible for them not to do so in many instances; [1824, August Matthiä, Copious Greek Grammar - Volume 1, page xxxvi:]
  • Out of one word, the apostrophus is most usual in poesie; [1865, Alexander Hume, Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue:]
  • The apostrophus or mark of contraction, is the same with the comma, onely the difference is of place; for, this stands not in the line, but over the upper part thereof, where the contraction is: [1644, Richard Hodges, The English Primrose:]
  • In the Greek, as in other languages, a short vowel at the end of a word before another vowel, is thrown out by elision, and the apostrophus ' is placed as a mark or sign over the empty space; [1833, Philipp Buttmann, Edmund Henry Barker, Dr. Philip Buttmann's Intermediate Or Larger Greek Grammar, page 46:]
  • This apocope is denoted by the apostrophus ( ' ), [1842, George Knox Gillespie, The Formative Greek Grammar, page 4:]
  • You find not the apostrophus, and so miss the accent. Let me supervise the canzonet. [1598, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost:]
  • In the early Graduals Benevento VI. 38 and 40, the apostrophus is common in syllabic passages in sequences, tropes and prosulae. [2009, Iain Fenlon, Early Music History, page 66:]
  • In transcriptions from Ben 34, I have not distinguished the apostrophus from regular notes. [2010, Rebecca Maloy, Inside the Offertory: Aspects of Chronology and Transmission, page iv:]
  • The early Beneventan apostrophus was optional, instructive and exemplary, suggesting low, quick, unaccented syllables at the start of a phrase (sometimes implying a preceding breath) in the Gregorian Mass Propers and short or quick syllables in tropes, prosulae and sequences. [2017, John Boe, Chant and Notation in South Italy and Rome before 1300, page 66:]
  • In every multiplication with ten a fresh apostrophus is added; thus IↃↃ = 5000, IↃↃↃ = 50,000. [1862, Richard Hiley, The Elements of Latin Grammar, page 26:]
  • The annexing of the apostrophus or inverted C (Ↄ) to IↃ makes its value ten times greater; [1878, Ethan Allen Andrews, Grammar of the Latin Language, page 72:]
  • The symbol Ↄ, known as the apostrophus, might be repeated one or more times after IↃ , each Ↄ making the number ten times greater, as IↃↃ = 5000, IↃↃↃↃ = 500,000. [2002, Allied Chambers, The Chambers Dictionary:]
  • Anno CIↃ IↃ C LXXXVI. (Apostrophus numbering): In the year 1686 [2018, Jan K. Coetzee, Books & Bones & Other Things, page 78:]

Etymology

From Latin apostrophus. See: Latin Nouns 'apostrophus'.