Tironian

English

Tironian notes

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Tīrōniānus.

Adjective

Tironian (comparative more Tironian, superlative most Tironian)

1. Of or pertaining to Marcus Tullius Tiro (died circa 4 BCE), scribe of Cicero and inventor of an early shorthand.
   • 1827, John Colin Dunlop, History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age‎^[1], volume II:

     The mark which expressed the word talis, being a little more sloped or inclined, expressed qualis; and the difference in the Tironian signs which stood for the complete words Ager and Amicus, was scarcely perceptible.

Translations

of or pertaining to M. Tullius Tiro

• German: tironisch
• Italian: tironiano
• Latin: Tīrōniānus

Anagrams

• Antirion, trianion