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Translingual
Etymology
The scepter of the goddess Juno surmounted by a star. The scepter took various forms, some rather elaborate, in the 19th century (see Juno for a slightly more intricate example), but soon a combination of an asterisk * and inverted dagger † were settled on for typographic convenience.
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German
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