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Meaning of nota Tironiana | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Tironian note
    declension-1
  2. Equivalent to 'Tironian note': Any one of thousands of signs in a system of shorthand developed in the 60s BC by Cicero’s scribe Marcus Tullius Tiro.

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Examples

“Saepe etiam notarii unum idemque vocabulum, quod alias nota Tironiana bene notaverant, vacillante memoria vulgaribus literis exararunt. Ita verbum Eradicentur, cujus notam Tironianam notarius (ap. Carpent. 2. v. 20) recte prius signaverat, non ita multo post (12. v. 30) vulgaribus literis scripsit. Inversa ratione nomen Chrisma, quod modo (Carp. 10) vulgaribus literis scripserat, paulo post, quum nota Tironiana in mentem rediret, ea ipsa bene notavit.”

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“Commentarii notarum Tironianarum cum prolegomenis adnotationibus criticis et exegeticis notarumque indice alphabetico edidit Guilelmus Schmitz.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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