See also: Ɔ [U+0186 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OPEN O], ɔ [U+0254 LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O], ͻ [U+037B GREEK SMALL REVERSED LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL], Ͻ [U+03FD GREEK CAPITAL REVERSED LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL], and ↄ [U+2184 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED C]
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Translingual
editNumber
editↃ (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
editLatin
editModern scholars think the Claudian letter may have looked more like this. No examples survive. |
Etymology
editCreated by the Roman Emperor Claudius. Perhaps inspired by the Arcadian variant of the Greek letter psi, ⟨ ⟩.
Design
editBecause 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
editLetter
editↃ (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.
Related terms
editSee also
edit- Claudian letters on Wikipedia.Wikipedia