υποδιαστολή (ipodiastolí)

English: decimal point

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Linguistic Information

Word Typenoun
Genderfeminine
Casenominative
NumberSingular

About υποδιαστολή

As a noun, υποδιαστολή is of the feminine gender and is in the nominative case in Greek grammar. It can help you understand sentence structure and word forms better.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: υ‧πο‧δι‧α‧στο‧λή

Definitions & Examples

  • noun:
    (typography, grammar, historical) The hypodiastole, a mark used in scripta continua Classical and Byzantine Greek to note that a series of letters should be read as two words rather than all together, now identical to the comma.
  • noun:
    (typography, mathematics) The Greek decimal point, identical to the comma.
  • noun:
    synonym of κόμμα (

Declension Table

feminine noun

CaseSingularPlural
nominativeυποδιαστολήυποδιαστολές
genitiveυποδιαστολήςυποδιαστολών
accusativeυποδιαστολήυποδιαστολές
vocativeυποδιαστολήυποδιαστολές

Greek nouns and adjectives change form based on case (role in sentence) and number. These forms show how υποδιαστολή appears in different grammatical contexts.