Questions tagged [abbreviations]
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Latin ligature in Castilian text: Sz? Sm?
Salvete!
I wonder if you have ideas about this abbreviation found in a 16th c. nautical text (Quatri partitu en cosmographia prática). The text is in Castilian, but the author likes to sprinkle Latin ...
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DOMA Abbreviation
I am attempting to translate Libavius' Alchymia. My Latin is pretty rusty and it will be a slow going process. The title page has the Hebrew Jehovah (הוה') and four letters DOMA which I am assuming is ...
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Abbreviation I haven’t seen before
Salve! In a book from 1483 there is an abbreviation or glyph I have never seen before. As the book is in Latin, I figured LatinSE was the place to ask. Has anyone ever seen this, and—more importantly—...
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Reading the motto of Obispado de Cuenca
There is a line of Latin handwriting on the logo of Obispado de Cuenca. What I can read is
ego. julianus. dei gra coch(?) eps.
with unknown diacritics.
julianus is seemingly Julián de Cuenca, a ...
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What does „fecerunt pedes“ mean in Latin inscriptions?
I have found several inscriptions in Latin that include the phrase „fecerunt/fecit pedes“
E.g. in the Basilica Sant‘Eufemia in Grado, Italy:
Martini/anus et Simplicia / cum fili/is suis / f(ecerunt) ...
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Any idea what's going on with the middle term of this dedication?
So I think the words are clear enough—Nobilissimo Principi FREDERICO GEORGII ffilio Celsissimi, GEORGII Nep: Augustissimi, CAESARI destinato, M. BRITANNIAE spei, Delicijs, Animaq. desideratissimae, ...
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What is going on with the symbol in the weight here?
So this is an image from William Musgrave's account of the Southbroom Hoard discovered outside Devizes, Wiltshire, in England in 1714. They seem to be some local's cache hidden away around the reign ...
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Is S. S. an abbreviation of scilicet?
I'm translating the following Latin dedication: "S. S. Theologiae Lectori Primario ad Regium Gymnasium"
"S. S." might be an abbreviation for scilicet (namely, to wit, in particular)...
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Expansion of medical Latin abbreviation (ventric. later. dextr.)
I don't know enough Latin grammar to properly expand this abbreviation: ventric. later. dextr.
I am aware that it means the right lateral ventricle in the brain, the lateral ventricles as a whole ...
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16th century Latin (England) Transcription/Translation of Recipe for Braggot
I study how mead was made (and what it tasted like!) before about 1750 CE. I am not a linguist, and acknowledge my rudimentary knowledge of Latin grammar/tenses/etc. (learning all the time).
I’m ...
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Latin date abbreviation meanings
I've hit a bit of a stumbling block with the translation of two dates written in Latin. Could anyone please confirm the meanings of the abbreviations in the below image?
I believe they simply are ...
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I with superscript ma
There is a footnote (45-35) in (Milman's 1845) Gibbon that looks like this:
See Brenkman, Dissert. Ima de Republicâ Amalphitanâ, pp.1-42, ad calcem Hist. Pandect. Florent.
I have not been able to ...
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Identifying a Latin abbreviation/symbol
While transcribing and translating some late 17th century Manorial Court rolls I have come across a frequently recurring symbol. I've referred to Capelli's The elements of abbreviation in medieval ...
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Does the abbreviation “ſ.” in this 1755 work mean “sine”?
For an answer on the RPG Stack, I’m trying to read some entries in Medicinisch-Chymisch und Alchemistisches Oraculum, a 1755 German work whose entries are in Latin. I’m stuck on these two entries:
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A short form for «as (it-) is»?
May there be an acronym, an abbreviation for the term «as is», «as it is»? The context the term used: to leave as it is, remain unchanged.
P.S.: Found a word stet, which translates to let it stand.
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