Meanings
plural interrogative-points
- obsoletemediaSynonym of question mark ⟨?⟩.
Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.
1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9Synonyms: question mark
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of question mark ⟨?⟩.
Origin
From the Latin punctus interrogativus.
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