Topic summary
Interpunct
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Middle dot.
Latin
The interpunctum was regularly used in classical Latin to separate words. In addition to the most common round form, inscriptions sometimes use a small equilateral triangle for the interpunctum, pointing either up or down. It may also appear as a mid-line comma, similar to the Greek practice of the time. The interpunctum fell out of use c. 200 CE and Latin was then written scripta continua for several centuries.