Tironian
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Latin Tīrōniānus.
Adjective
[edit]Tironian (comparative more Tironian, superlative most Tironian)
- Of or pertaining to Marcus Tullius Tiro (died circa 4 BCE), scribe of Cicero and inventor of an early shorthand.
- 1827, John Colin Dunlop, History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age[1], volume II:
- The mark which expressed the word talis, being a little more sloped or inclined, expressed qualis; and the difference in the Tironian signs which stood for the complete words Ager and Amicus, was scarcely perceptible.
Translations
[edit]of or pertaining to M. Tullius Tiro
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