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Translingual
[edit]Diacritical mark
[edit]◌͗
- (UPA) (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
- (IPA) The more-rounded diacritic ⟨◌̹⟩ on a letter with a descender, such as ⟨y͗⟩.
English
[edit]Diacritical mark
[edit]◌͗
- (Old Latin typography) The sicilicus, written atop a consonant to mark gemination, superseded in Classical Latin by doubling the letter representing the geminated consonant.
- 1925, Sir John Edwin Sandys, A Companion to Latin Studies, 3rd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 743:
- It is stated by grammarians that a sicilicus or laterally inverted Ⅽ, Ↄ, was placed above a consonant which was to be regarded as a doubled letter.