Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

insular script

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English

Syllables: in-su-lar script
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A medieval script originating in 7ᵗʰ-century Ireland, derived from the semi-uncial and the New Roman cursive scripts

Example Sentences

"A St. Bertin MS. of Augustine's Letters, now at Boulogne […], written in Insular script of the same century, seems to have transcribed many of its abbreviation-symbols mechanically from a very early original"
"In Ammian. ⅹⅹ. 3. 1 secuturos thecanno VM: for secuto post haec anno; the original error must have been secutoros, with the confusion of P and R common in reading the insular script."

Inflected Forms

insular scripts (plural)

Phrases

Unicode insular script characters: Ꝺ ꝺ Ꝼ ꝼ Ᵹ ᵹ Ꝿ ꝿ Ꟑ ꟑ Ꞃ ꞃ Ꞅ ꞅ Ꞇ ꞇ

Frequently Paired Words

Unicode insular script characters: Ꝺ ꝺ Ꝼ ꝼ Ᵹ ᵹ Ꝿ ꝿ Ꟑ ꟑ Ꞃ ꞃ Ꞅ ꞅ Ꞇ ꞇ

Questions

What does insular script mean?: A medieval script originating in 7ᵗʰ-century Ireland, derived from the semi-uncial and the New Roman cursive scripts

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