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Tironian

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Tīrōniānus.

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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, 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.

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