Titlo
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Titlo | |
| U+0483 ◌҃ COMBINING CYRILLIC TITLO |
Titlo is an extended
The titlo is drawn as a line over a text. In some styles of writing the line is drawn with serifs, so that it may appear as a zigzag. The usual form in this case is short stroke up, falling slanted line, short stroke up; an alternative resembles a volta bracket: short stroke up, horizontal line, short stroke down.
The titlo has several meanings depending on the context:
One meaning is in its use to mark letters when they are used as numerals.[1] This is a quasi-decimal system analogous to Greek numerals.
A titlo is also used as a
A short titlo is placed over a single letter or over an entire abbreviation; a long titlo is placed over a whole word.
A further meaning was in its use in manuscripts, where the titlo was often used to mark the place where a scribe accidentally skipped the letter, if there was no space to draw the missed letter above.
Titlo is encoded in Unicode as U+0483 ◌҃ COMBINING CYRILLIC TITLO, U+FE2E ◌︮ COMBINING CYRILLIC TITLO LEFT HALF and U+FE2F ◌︯ COMBINING CYRILLIC TITLO RIGHT HALF.
See also
References
- ^ a b Гаманович, Алипий (1984) [1964]. Грамматика церковно-славянскаго языка. Jordanville, NY: Holy Trinity Monastery Свято-Троицкий монастырь. p. 271.
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