Scribal abbreviations, or sigla (singular: siglum), are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin...

specific monograms and mere scribal abbreviations somewhat fluid. The name Jesus, spelt ΙΗΣΟΥΣ in Greek capitals, has the abbreviations IHS (also written JHS...

abbreviations List of Latin phrases Scribal abbreviation "United States Government Printing Office Style Manual, Chapter 9: Abbreviations and Letter Symbols" (PDF)...

An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning "short") is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism...

descended from the Roman libra (hence the symbol lb, descended from the scribal abbreviation, ℔). The English word pound comes from the Roman libra pondo ('the...

following were scribal abbreviations during Middle and Early Modern English using the letter thorn: (þͤ) – a Middle English abbreviation for the word the...

several meanings depending on the context: A titlo is used as a scribal abbreviation mark for frequently written long words and also for nouns describing...

various forms of chi-rho monogram. In English, "X" was first used as a scribal abbreviation for "Christ" in 1100; "X'temmas" is attested in 1551, and "Xmas"...

an 1826 Court of Chancery case Scribal abbreviation, or siglum, an abbreviation used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages This...

other symbols. Ꝥ (minuscule: ꝥ), or Þ (thorn) with stroke was a scribal abbreviation common in the Middle Ages. It was used for Old English: þæt (Modern...

14th century and was replaced by ⟨th⟩. Anachronistic usage of the scribal abbreviation (þe, "the") has led to the modern mispronunciation of thorn as ⟨y⟩...

of marks written over an omitted letter or several letters as a scribal abbreviation (a "mark of contraction"). Thus, the commonly used words Anno Domini...

signified Thanatos, the Greek deity of death. Scribal abbreviation – Abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes Mednikarova, Iveta (2001). "The Use of...

science) Suspend and resume (disambiguation) Suspension, a form of scribal abbreviation in medieval manuscripts Suspended animation Suspended meal This disambiguation...

₭ : Lao kip Ꝃ ꝃ, Ꝅ ꝅ : Various forms of K were used for medieval scribal abbreviations Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859...

with a scribal abbreviation that put a small "u" over the letter thorn: þͧ (later, in printing presses that lacked this letter, this abbreviation was sometimes...

holds that the sign grew out of the Spanish and Spanish American scribal abbreviation "ps" for pesos. A study of late 18th- and early 19th-century manuscripts...

just one of many kinds of conventional scribal abbreviation, used to reduce the time-consuming workload of the scribe and save on valuable writing materials...

sign is first attested in business correspondence in the 1770s as a scribal abbreviation "ps", referring to the Spanish American peso, that is, the "Spanish...

the Old English letter thorn, ⟨þ⟩. During the Tudor period, the scribal abbreviation for þe was þͤ or þᵉ ; here, the letter ⟨þ⟩ is combined with the letter...

form, the mark was an open C crossed by a vertical line or two, a scribal abbreviation for capitulum, the Latin word for chapter. David Sacks (2003). "K...

symbols. Viz. is shorthand for the Latin adverb videlicet using scribal abbreviation, a system of medieval Latin shorthand. It consists of the first two...

through descender Ꝑ (minuscule: ꝑ) used in the medieval period as a scribal abbreviation for per, par-, por-. The minuscule form, U+1D7D ᵽ LATIN SMALL LETTER...

Over a u at the end of a word, the macron indicated um as a form of scribal abbreviation. In romanizations of Hebrew, the macron below is typically used to...

(girl) Ꝑ ꝑ, Ꝓ ꝓ, Ꝕ, ꝕ : Various forms of P were used for medieval scribal abbreviations Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859...

as abbreviations, such as sov for sovereign. The /ʌ/ sound is spelled ⟨o⟩, not ⟨u⟩, before the letter ⟨v⟩. This originated with a mediaeval scribal practice...

patterns – such as VXL for 45, instead of the usual XLV — may be due to scribal errors, or the writer's lack of familiarity with the system, rather than...

symbol) £ : pound sign Ꝉ ꝉ : Forms of L were used for medieval scribal abbreviations Ł or ł, "L with stroke" used in Polish and many neighbouring languages...

signature mark Ꝗ ꝗ, Ꝙ ꝙ: Various forms of Q were used for medieval scribal abbreviations List of English words containing Q not followed by U Mind your Ps...

sign was perhaps the result of a late 18th-century evolution of the scribal abbreviation ps for the peso, the common name for the Spanish dollars that were...