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The dot is vertically centered, e. g. " DONA · EIS · REQVIEM ", and is therefore also called a middle dot or centered dot ( Commonwealth: centred dot ).

In addition to the round dot form, inscriptions sometimes use a small equilateral triangle for the interpunct, pointing either up or down.

Such triangles can be found on inscriptions on buildings in the twentieth century.

Ancient Greek, by contrast, had not developed interpuncts ; all the letters ran together.

The use of spaces for word separation did not appear until much later, some time between 600 and 800 AD.