brevigraph means modified letter or letter with diacritics, used as an abbreviation of a sequence of letters. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 95 out of 100.
noun
- Modified letter or letter with diacritics, used as an abbreviation of a sequence of letters.“Early prints used many abbreviations which were the descendants of the abbreviations used in manuscripts; we discuss here a subset of them, called brevigraphs. Quite often they consisted of a regular non-modified letter supplemented by a diacritical mark, usually a macron or a similar glyph, placed above. It is natural to call them composed brevigraphs. On the other hand there are abbreviations in”