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semicolon (n.)
[semicolon 词源字典]
punctuation-mark, 1640s, a hybrid coined from Latin-derived
semi-
+ Greek-based
colon
(n.1). The mark itself was (and is) in Greek the point of interrogation.
[semicolon etymology, semicolon origin, 英语词源]