positura

plural positurae

1. A stroke added to a medieval punctus; a punctuation mark created by addition of such a stroke.

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

   1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect, Plates and Commentaries, page 197

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   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.

   2011 July 22, Tadao Kudouchi, edited by Akio Oizumi and Jacek Fisiak, English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172

   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.

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