Noun
A diacritical mark with various forms, attached to the e of the e caudata used to indicate an abbreviation of ae or sometimes of oe, sometimes used on another letter when the e is omitted.
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The cauda of the e-caudata is extended. Ligatures of -st, -rt, -et and -nt are used.
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Later, around the turn of the 18th century, when Polish antiqua prints had become more usual, the cauda ‘tail’ of was placed under the back nasal, too, which resulted in modern .
The imitation is produced by systematic use of letters that because of their morphology and their position in the word are identified as “ancient” [...] : the conjunction handled via the ampersand (&) in place of the tironian et; tall s not only internally to the word but also at the end; d with a straight ascender instead of the Uncial variant with oblique ascender; straight r after a curve in place of the so-called round r; g formed of two circular sections connected to one another by a short vertical stroke; e with a cedilla or cauda (ę) and sometimes the nexus æ to indicate the diphthong; majuscules with origin in capitalis in the text.
e-caudata is employed for h[a]ec and qu[a]e and the cauda has the open wishbone or hook form, used also by Beta and Sigma.
Noun
any taillike structure