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- Greek_ligatures abstract "Greek ligatures are graphic combinations of the letters of the Greek alphabet that were used in medieval handwritten Greek and in early printing. Ligatures were used in the cursive writing style and very extensively in later minuscule writing. There were many dozens of conventional ligatures. Some of them stood for frequent letter combinations, some for inflectional endings of words, and some were abbreviations of entire words.In early printed Greek from around 1500, many ligatures fashioned after contemporary manuscript hands continued to be used. Important models for this early typesetting practice were the designs of Aldus Manutius in Venice, and those of Claude Garamond in Paris, who created the influential Grecs du roi typeface in 1541. However, the use of ligatures gradually declined during the 17th and 18th centuries and became mostly obsolete in modern typesetting. Among the ligatures that remained in use the longest are the ligature Ȣ for ου, which resembles an o with an u on top, and the abbreviation ϗ for καὶ ('and'), which resembles a κ with a downward stroke on the right. The ου ligature is still occasionally used in decorative writing, while the καὶ abbreviation has some limited usage in functions similar to the Latin ampersand (&). Another ligature that was relatively frequent in early modern printing is a ligature of Ο with ς (a small sigma inside an omicron) for a terminal ος.The ligature ϛ for στ, now called stigma, survived in a special role besides its use as a ligature proper. It took on the function of a number sign for "6", having been visually conflated with the cursive form of the ancient letter digamma, which had this numeral function.".
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- Greek_ligatures hasPhotoCollection Greek_ligatures.
- Greek_ligatures subject Category:Greek_alphabet.
- Greek_ligatures subject Category:Typographic_ligatures.
- Greek_ligatures type Abstraction100002137.
- Greek_ligatures type AuditoryCommunication107109019.
- Greek_ligatures type Communication100033020.
- Greek_ligatures type Ligature107045519.
- Greek_ligatures type Music107020895.
- Greek_ligatures type MusicalComposition107037465.
- Greek_ligatures type Passage107044917.
- Greek_ligatures type Phrase107045353.
- Greek_ligatures type TypographicLigatures.
- Greek_ligatures comment "Greek ligatures are graphic combinations of the letters of the Greek alphabet that were used in medieval handwritten Greek and in early printing. Ligatures were used in the cursive writing style and very extensively in later minuscule writing. There were many dozens of conventional ligatures.".
- Greek_ligatures label "Greek ligatures".
- Greek_ligatures label "Ligatures de l'alphabet grec".
- Greek_ligatures label "Греческие лигатуры".
- Greek_ligatures sameAs Ligatures_de_l'alphabet_grec.
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- Greek_ligatures sameAs Q2606186.
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- Greek_ligatures wasDerivedFrom Greek_ligatures?oldid=602979545.
- Greek_ligatures depiction Greek_print_1566_Aristotle.png.
- Greek_ligatures isPrimaryTopicOf Greek_ligatures.