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ligatura
ligatura
Latin
Etymology
Found in Vulgar and Late Latin. From ligātus, past participle of ligō (“tie, bind”).
Noun
ligātūra f (genitive ligātūrae); first declension
Descendants
References
- ligatura in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- LIGATURA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ligatura”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- ligatura in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Portuguese
Noun
ligatura f (plural ligaturas)
- (typography) ligature (character that combines multiple letters)