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ABBREVIATION (Lat. brevis, short)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 27 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ABBREVIATION (Lat. brevis, short) , strictly a shortening; more particularly, an " abbreviation " is a
letter
  or group of letters, taken from a word or words, and employed to represent them for the
sake
  of brevity. Abbreviations, both of single words and of phrases, having a meaning more or less fixed and recognized, are common in ancient writings and
inscriptions
  (see
PALAEOGRAPHY
  and DIPLoMATIc), and very many are in use at the present time. A distinction is to be observed between abbreviations and the contractions that are frequently to be met with in old manuscripts, and even in early printed books, whereby letters are dropped out here and there, or particular collocations of letters represented by somewhat arbitrary symbols. The commonest form of abbreviation is the substitution for a word of its initial
letter
 ; but, with a view to prevent ambiguity, one or more of the other letters are frequently added. Letters are often doubled to indicate a plural or a
superlative.
I. CLASSICAL ABBREVIATIONS.The following
list
  contains a selection from the abbreviations that occur in the writings
and
inscriptions
  of the Romans:
A.
A. Absolvo, Aedilis, Aes, Ager, Ago, Aio, Amicus, Annus, Antiquo, Auctor, Auditor,
Augustus
 , Aulus, Aurum, Aut.
A.A. Aes alienum, Ante audita, Apud agrum, Aurum argentum.
AA.
Augusti
 . AAA.
Augusti
  tres. A.A.A.F.F. Auro argento acre flando feriundo.'
A.A.V. Alter ambove.
A.C. Acta causa, Alius civis.
A.D. Ante diem; e.g. A.D.V. Ante diem quintum. A.D.A. Ad dandos agros.


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