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/, [lɪ.ɡaːˈtuː.ra]

Noun

ligātūra f (genitive ligātūrae); first declension

1. binding, tying
2. bookbinding

Descendants

• Albanian: liktyrë (borrowing)
• Aromanian: ligãturã
• Catalan: lligadura
• English: ligature (borrowing)
• French: ligature (borrowing)
• Italian: legatura
• Occitan: ligadura

• Old Spanish: legadura
• 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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “ligatura”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “ligatura” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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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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