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See also: Ɔ ,
ɔ ,
ͻ ,
Ͻ , and ↄ
Translingual
Number
Ↄ (lower case ↄ)
- In composites:
- IↃ — 500
- CIↃ — 1,000
1868, W. Aldis Wright, Bacon’s Essays and Colours of Good and Evil with Notes and Glossarial Index (in English and Latin), M.A.: Macmillan and Co., preface, page xxi:The date of the letter is “ Londini xiv Julii Anglorum CIↃ.DC.XIX.”
- IↃↃ — 5,000
- CCIↃↃ — 10,000
Synonyms
- (500): D, Ⅾ
- (1,000): M, Ⅿ; ↀ
- (5,000): ↁ
- (10,000): ↂ
Latin
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Modern scholars think the Claudian letter may have looked more like this. No examples survive. |
Etymology
Created by the Roman Emperor Claudius. Perhaps inspired by the Arcadian variant of the Greek letter psi, ⟨⟩.
Design
Because no examples of the letter survive, it is not certain what it looked like. It may have been Ↄ or an X-like letter resembling ↃC.
Pronunciation
Letter
Ↄ (lower case ↄ)
- Upper-case antisigma. Used to replace the digraphs BS and PS, much like X stood in for the digraphs CS and GS.
See also