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Titlo

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234:'Lord' abbreviated to its first letter and stem ending (also a single letter here, in the nominative case). Around the 15th century, titla in most schools came to be restricted to a special semiotic meaning, used exclusively to refer to sacred concepts, while the same words were otherwise spelled out without titla, and so, for example, while "God" in the sense of the one true God is abbreviated as above, "god" referring to "false" gods is spelled out; likewise, while the word for "angel" is generally abbreviated, "angels" is spelled out in "performed by evil angels" in Psalm 77. This corresponds to the 119: 1478: 93: 134: 104: 76: 199:
The titlo is drawn as a line over a text. In some styles of writing the line is drawn with serifs, so that it may appear as a zigzag. The usual form in this case is short stroke up, falling slanted line, short stroke up; an alternative resembles a
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A further meaning was in its use in manuscripts, where the titlo was often used to mark the place where a scribe accidentally skipped the letter, if there was no space to draw the missed letter above.
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A short titlo is placed over a single letter or over an entire abbreviation; a long titlo is placed over a whole word.
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mark for frequently written long words and also for nouns describing sacred persons. In place of
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Titlos are also used to mark letters when they are used as
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The Hirmos Ponomar font for viewing Church Slavonic texts
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The titlo has several meanings depending on the context:
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The word is a borrowing from the Greek 1495: 1041: 944: 885: 1206: 1194: 993: 954: 1110: 1081: 1071: 1061: 914: 865: 387: 1051: 983: 934: 1130: 175: 1120: 924: 875: 394: 380: 1446:combining character § Unicode ranges 347: 180:, "title" and is a cognate of the words 132: 117: 102: 91: 74: 68:question marks, boxes, or other symbols 16:Early Cyrillic and Glagolitic diacritic 1496: 258:, a quasi-decimal system analogous to 222:'God' was written under the titlo and 375: 350:Грамматика церковно-славянскаго языка 1460:English terms with diacritical marks 312:COMBINING CYRILLIC TITLO RIGHT HALF 13: 297:COMBINING CYRILLIC TITLO LEFT HALF 14: 1520: 360: 1477: 1476: 307: 292: 277: 231: 227: 223: 219: 215: 401: 341: 1: 1439:(placeholder glyph character) 334: 410:In Latin, Cyrillic and Greek 226:' speaks' is abbreviated as 7: 317: 10: 1525: 1504:Cyrillic-script diacritics 348:Gamanovič, Alypy (1984) . 1454: 1419: 1363: 1247: 1207: 1195: 1151: 1131: 1121: 1111: 1082: 1072: 1062: 1052: 1042: 994: 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Index

special characters
rendering support
question marks, boxes, or other symbols

Dobro
Cyrillic numeral
four

Suzdal


sigla
Church Slavonic

Codex Zographensis
overline
diacritic
early Cyrillic
Glagolitic
Old Church Slavonic
Old East Slavic
tittle
tilde
Church Slavonic
volta bracket
scribal abbreviation
Nomina sacra
Greek
Scriptures
Cyrillic numerals

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