| 单词 |
semi-uncial |
| 释义 |
semi-ˈuncial, a. (n.) Palæogr. [semi- 6 a.] Name of a style of writing intermediate between uncial and minuscule. Cf. half-uncial s.v. half- II. n.
a1734North Life Ld. Kpr. North (1742) 16 It is not well to write, as the Fashion now is, uncial or semiuncial Letters, to look like Pigs Ribs. 1815Scott Guy M. xlix, The letters are uncial or semi-uncial, as somebody calls your large text-hand, and in size and perpendicularity resemble the ribs of a roasted pig. 1883I. Taylor Alph. v. ii. 173 [Irish script] is usually called the Irish uncial or semi-uncial. |

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