V with diagonal stroke (Ꝟ, ꝟ) is a letter of the

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, derived from V with the addition of a bar through the left stroke.

Usage

This letter is used in medieval texts as an abbreviation for ''vir'', ''ver'', and ''vere'', as in

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''virgo'', a maiden, or

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''ver'', to see, ''conversa'', conversation, or ''vereador'', member of a town council.

Computer encodings

Capital and small V with diagonal stroke is encoded in

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as of version 5.1, at codepoints U+A75E and U+A75F.

References

Bibliography

* Adriano Cappelli,
Lexicon Abbreviaturarum
', J. J. Weber, Leipzig (1928). Phonetic transcription symbols Latin letters with diacritics {{phonetics-stub