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brevigraph

brevigraph noun: modified letter or letter with diacritics, used as an abbreviation of a sequence of letters.

Noun

brevigraph (plural brevigraphs)

  1. Modified letter or letter with diacritics, used as an abbreviation of a sequence of letters.
    • Early prints used many abbreviations which were the descendants of the abbreviations used in manuscripts; we discuss here a subset of them, called brevigraphs. Quite often they consisted of a regular non-modified letter supplemented by a diacritical mark, usually a macron or a similar glyph, placed...2024, Janusz S. Bień, “Basic Latin brevigraphs listed in Polonia Typographica Saeculi Sedecimi — progress report”, in TUGboat, volume 45, number 1

Forms of brevigraph

pluralbrevigraphs

Origin of brevigraph

brevi- + graph

Questions about brevigraph

What does brevigraph mean?
Brevigraph means modified letter or letter with diacritics, used as an abbreviation of a sequence of letters.
What part of speech is brevigraph?
Brevigraph is a noun.
What is the plural of brevigraph?
The plural of brevigraph is brevigraphs.

Words near brevigraph in the dictionary

  1. brevier
  2. brevifurcate
  3. breviger
  4. brevigers
  5. brevigline
  6. brevigraph
  7. brevilineal
  8. brevilingual
  9. Breville
  10. Brevilles
  11. breviloquence

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