Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Roman cursive

Index Roman cursive

Roman cursive (or Latin cursive) is a form of handwriting (or a script) used in ancient Rome and to some extent into the Middle Ages. [1]

24 relations: Ancient Rome, Blackletter, Calligraphy, Carolingian minuscule, Castor and Pollux, Chevron (insignia), Current Archaeology, Cursive, Demotic (Egyptian), Gaelic type, Handwriting, Hieratic, Latin alphabet, Letter case, Middle Ages, Plautus, Pseudolus, Renaissance, Roman emperor, Roman square capitals, Sibyl, Typographic ligature, Uncial script, University of Oxford.

Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

New!!: Roman cursive and Ancient Rome · See more »

Blackletter

Blackletter (sometimes black letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule, or Textura, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 to well into the 17th century.

New!!: Roman cursive and Blackletter · See more »

Calligraphy

Calligraphy (from Greek: καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing.

New!!: Roman cursive and Calligraphy · See more »

Carolingian minuscule

Carolingian minuscule or Caroline minuscule is a script which developed as a calligraphic standard in Europe so that the Latin alphabet could be easily recognized by the literate class from one region to another.

New!!: Roman cursive and Carolingian minuscule · See more »

Castor and Pollux

Castor and Pollux (or in Greek, Polydeuces) were twin brothers and demigods in Greek and Roman mythology, known together as the Dioscuri.

New!!: Roman cursive and Castor and Pollux · See more »

Chevron (insignia)

A chevron (also spelled cheveron, especially in older documents) is a V-shaped mark, often inverted.

New!!: Roman cursive and Chevron (insignia) · See more »

Current Archaeology

Current Archaeology is a British monthly archaeology magazine.

New!!: Roman cursive and Current Archaeology · See more »

Cursive

Cursive (also known as script or longhand, among other names) is any style of penmanship in which some characters are written joined together in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster.

New!!: Roman cursive and Cursive · See more »

Demotic (Egyptian)

Demotic (from δημοτικός dēmotikós, "popular") is the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Nile Delta, and the stage of the Egyptian language written in this script, following Late Egyptian and preceding Coptic.

New!!: Roman cursive and Demotic (Egyptian) · See more »

Gaelic type

Gaelic type (sometimes called Irish character, Irish type, or Gaelic script) is a family of insular typefaces devised for printing Classical Gaelic.

New!!: Roman cursive and Gaelic type · See more »

Handwriting

Handwriting is the writing done with a writing instrument, such as a pen or pencil, in the hand.

New!!: Roman cursive and Handwriting · See more »

Hieratic

Hieratic (priestly) is a cursive writing system used in the provenance of the pharaohs in Egypt.

New!!: Roman cursive and Hieratic · See more »

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet or the Roman alphabet is a writing system originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.

New!!: Roman cursive and Latin alphabet · See more »

Letter case

Letter case (or just case) is the distinction between the letters that are in larger upper case (also uppercase, capital letters, capitals, caps, large letters, or more formally majuscule) and smaller lower case (also lowercase, small letters, or more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages.

New!!: Roman cursive and Letter case · See more »

Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

New!!: Roman cursive and Middle Ages · See more »

Plautus

Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 – 184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period.

New!!: Roman cursive and Plautus · See more »

Pseudolus

Pseudolus is a play by the ancient Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus.

New!!: Roman cursive and Pseudolus · See more »

Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.

New!!: Roman cursive and Renaissance · See more »

Roman emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period (starting in 27 BC).

New!!: Roman cursive and Roman emperor · See more »

Roman square capitals

Roman square capitals, also called capitalis monumentalis, inscriptional capitals, elegant capitals and capitalis quadrata, are an ancient Roman form of writing, and the basis for modern capital letters.

New!!: Roman cursive and Roman square capitals · See more »

Sibyl

The sibyls were women that the ancient Greeks believed were oracles.

New!!: Roman cursive and Sibyl · See more »

Typographic ligature

In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined as a single glyph.

New!!: Roman cursive and Typographic ligature · See more »

Uncial script

Uncial is a majusculeGlaister, Geoffrey Ashall.

New!!: Roman cursive and Uncial script · See more »

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

New!!: Roman cursive and University of Oxford · See more »

Redirects here:

Latin cursive, Minuscule cursive, New Roman cursive, Old Roman cursive.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_cursive

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »