"Ͱ" meaning in Latin

See Ͱ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Character

Forms: ⱶ [lowercase]
Etymology: Created by the Roman Emperor Claudius. Head templates: {{head|la|letter|||||lower case|ⱶ|||sc=}} Ͱ (lower case ⱶ), {{la-letter|lower=ⱶ}} Ͱ (lower case ⱶ)
  1. Used to represent the so called sonus medius, a short vowel sound between U and I before labial consonants in Latin words such as optumus and optimus, later used as a variant of y in inscriptions for Greek upsilon (as in Olympicus), possibly inspired by an early form of the spiritus asper. Tags: letter Related terms: Ⅎ ⅎ, Ↄ ↄ
    Sense id: en-Ͱ-la-character-rI2Qy-nJ Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin terms in nonstandard scripts

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  ],
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        "10": "",
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        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
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        "9": "",
        "sc": ""
      },
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    },
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      },
      "expansion": "Ͱ (lower case ⱶ)",
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin terms in nonstandard scripts",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        "Used to represent the so called sonus medius, a short vowel sound between U and I before labial consonants in Latin words such as optumus and optimus, later used as a variant of y in inscriptions for Greek upsilon (as in Olympicus), possibly inspired by an early form of the spiritus asper."
      ],
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        ],
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        ],
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        ],
        [
          "spiritus asper",
          "spiritus asper"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "Ⅎ ⅎ"
        },
        {
          "word": "Ↄ ↄ"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "letter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Ͱ"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Created by the Roman Emperor Claudius.",
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "lowercase"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "10": "",
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        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
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        "9": "",
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      },
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      "name": "head"
    },
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      "args": {
        "lower": "ⱶ"
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      "expansion": "Ͱ (lower case ⱶ)",
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  "pos": "character",
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    {
      "word": "Ⅎ ⅎ"
    },
    {
      "word": "Ↄ ↄ"
    }
  ],
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      ],
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        ],
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          "y",
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          "spiritus asper",
          "spiritus asper"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
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}

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