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descending s

descending s noun: synonym of long s.

Noun

descending s

  1. Synonym of long s.
    • The script of the Latin praise poem is more filigree and smaller than on the remaining pages and appears even more influenced by cursive, since for example the stems of the ‘descending s’ and the ‘high-stemmed f’ reach under the imaginary line for writing, which is more common for Gothic cursive...2010, Susanne Miriam Fahn and Gottskálk Jensson, “The Forgotten Poem: A Latin Panegyric for Saint Þorlákr in AM 382 4to”, in Gripla, number 21, pages 36-37
    Synonyms:
    long s

Synonyms of descending s

Questions about descending s

What does descending s mean?
Descending s means synonym of long s.
What part of speech is descending s?
Descending s is a noun.

Words near descending s in the dictionary

  1. descending nodes
  2. descending on
  3. descending palatine arteries
  4. descending palatine artery
  5. descending perineum syndrome
  6. descending s
  7. descending upon
  8. descendingly
  9. descendings
  10. descendostomies
  11. descendostomy

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