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Translingual

Number

(lower case )

  1. In composites:
    1. IↃ — 500
    2. CIↃ — 1,000
      • 1868, W. Aldis Wright, M.A., Bacon’s Essays and Colours of Good and Evil with Notes and Glossarial Index (Macmillan and Co.), preface, page xxi
        The date of the letter isLondini xiv Julii Anglorum CIↃ.DC.XIX.
    3. IↃↃ — 5,000
    4. CCIↃↃ — 10,000

Synonyms


Latin

Etymology

Created by the Roman Emperor Claudius. Inspired by the Greek psi.

Symbol

  1. Upper-case antisigma, resembling a reversed Roman numeral for one hundred. Used to replace the digraphs BS and PS, much like X stood in for the digraphs CS and GS.