V with diagonal stroke
Appearance
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V with diagonal stroke (Ꝟ, ꝟ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from V with the addition of a bar through the left stroke.
Usage
[edit]This letter is used in medieval texts as an abbreviation for vir, ver, and vere, as in Latin virgo, a maiden, or Portuguese ver, to see, conversa, conversation, or vereador, member of a town council.[1][2]
Computer encodings
[edit]Capital and small V with diagonal stroke is encoded in Unicode as of version 5.1, at codepoints U+A75E and U+A75F.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS" (PDF). 30 January 2006. International Organization for Standardization. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ Cappelli, Lexicon Abbreviaturarum, p. 383.
- ^ "Unicode Character 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V WITH DIAGONAL STROKE' (U+A75E)". Fileformat.info. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ "Unicode Character 'LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH DIAGONAL STROKE' (U+A75F)". Fileformat.info. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
Bibliography
[edit]- Adriano Cappelli, Lexicon Abbreviaturarum, J. J. Weber, Leipzig (1928).