Czech

Noun

ligatura m

1. (typography) ligature

Synonyms

• slitek m

French

Verb

ligatura

1. third-person singular past historic of ligaturer

Anagrams

• larguait

Latin

Etymology

Found in Vulgar and Late Latin. From ligātus, past participle of ligō ‎(“tie, bind”).

Noun

ligātūra f ‎(genitive ligātūrae); first declension

1. binding, tying
2. bookbinding

Descendants

References

• ligatura in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• LIGATURA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ligatura”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• ligatura in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Noun

ligatura f (plural ligaturas)

1. (typography) ligature (character that combines multiple letters)

Related terms

• liga

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

ligatúra f ‎(Cyrillic spelling лигату́ра)

1. (typography) ligature

Declension