ligatura

See also: ligatúra and ligãturã

Czech

Noun

ligatura m

1. (typography) ligature

Synonyms

• slitek m

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French

Verb

ligatura

1. third-person singular past historic of ligaturer

Anagrams

• larguait

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Latin

Etymology

Found in Vulgar and Late Latin. From ligō (“tie, bind”) +‎ -tūra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /li.ɡaːˈtuː.ra/, [lʲɪɡäːˈt̪uːrä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /li.ɡaˈtu.ra/, [liɡäˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

ligātūra f (genitive ligātūrae); first declension

1. binding, tying
2. bookbinding

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ligātūra	ligātūrae
Genitive	ligātūrae	ligātūrārum
Dative	ligātūrae	ligātūrīs
Accusative	ligātūram	ligātūrās
Ablative	ligātūrā	ligātūrīs
Vocative	ligātūra	ligātūrae

Descendants

• Albanian: liktyrë (borrowing)
• Aromanian: ligãturã
• Catalan: lligadura
• English: ligature (borrowing)
• French: ligature (borrowing)
• Italian: legatura
  • → English: legatura
• Occitan: ligadura
• Old Spanish: legadura
• Polish: ligatura (borrowing)
• Portuguese: ligadura (borrowing)
• Romanian: legătură
• Russian: лигатура (ligatura) (borrowing)
• Sardinian: liadura, ligadura
• Spanish: ligadura (borrowing)

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ligatura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• ligatura in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ligātūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.ɡaˈtu.ra/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Syllabification: li‧ga‧tu‧ra

Noun

ligatura f

1. (typography) ligature
2. (music) ligature
3. (medicine) ligature

Declension

Declension of ligatura

	singular	plural
nominative	ligatura	ligatury
genitive	ligatury	ligatur
dative	ligaturze	ligaturom
accusative	ligaturę	ligatury
instrumental	ligaturą	ligaturami
locative	ligaturze	ligaturach
vocative	ligaturo	ligatury

Further reading

• ligatura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ligatura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Noun

ligatura f (plural ligaturas)

1. (typography) ligature (character that combines multiple letters)

Related terms

• liga

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

ligatúra f (Cyrillic spelling лигату́ра)

1. (typography) ligature

Declension

Declension of ligatura

	singular	plural
nominative	ligatura	ligature
genitive	ligature	ligatura
dative	ligaturi	ligaturama
accusative	ligaturu	ligature
vocative	ligaturo	ligature
locative	ligaturi	ligaturama
instrumental	ligaturom	ligaturama