different between uncial vs ustav

English

Etymology 1

Attested 1650, from Latin uncia (“a twelfth part, ounce, inch”).

Adjective

uncial (comparative more uncial, superlative most uncial)

1. (rare) Of or relating to an ounce, or an inch, especially to letters printed an inch high.

Etymology 2

Attested 1712, from Late Latin unciales (“uncials”), unciales litterae (“uncial letters”) (Jerome), plural of uncialis (“pertaining to one twelfth part, ounce, or inch”), from uncia (“one twelfth part, ounce, inch”). The literal meaning is unclear: some references indicate "inch-high letters", but see “Uncial script” in Wikipedia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.si.?l/, /??n.?i.?l/, /??n.??l/

Adjective

uncial (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a majuscule style of writing with unjoined, rounded letters, originally used in the 4th–9th centuries.

Translations

Noun

uncial (plural uncials)

1. A style of writing using uncial letters.
2. A letter in this style.
3. A manuscript in this style.

Translations

Derived terms

• semi-uncial, half-uncial

Related terms

• uncia
• ounce
• inch

References

Anagrams

• Alcuin, Lucian, Lucina

Spanish

Adjective

uncial (plural unciales)

1. uncial

Noun

uncial f (plural unciales)

1. uncial

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic ??????? (ustav?).

Noun

ustav (plural ustavs)

1. (palaeography) The earliest style of Cyrillic writing developed from Greek uncial in the late 9th century, predominant in the 11th–14th centuries.

   The handsomely fashioned writing is of the type described as polu-ustav (semi-uncial), which is midway between the stately ustav and the cursive, . . . —A. Aronson, Rabindranath Through Western Eyes

2. (Eastern Orthodoxy) A church statute prescribing daily prayer, feast days, and fasts.

   While most of the service books are employed only in the conduct of public devotion, the psalter and the ustav are widely read works that are found in every household. —David Scheffel, In the Shadow of Antichrist: The Old Believers of Alberta

Synonyms

• (palaeography): uncial
• (Eastern Orthodoxy): typikon, typicon

Derived terms

• (palaeography): poluustav, polu-ustav, semi-ustav

Usage notes

Ustav and poluustav writing is often referred to as Cyrillic uncial and semi-uncial script, but the comparison to the Western European style is considered inadequate by some palaeographers, so the Slavic words are also used in English-language writing.

Usually italicized.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:ustav.

Anagrams

• vastu, vatus, vauts

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

u- +? stav

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ûsta??/
• Hyphenation: u?stav

Noun

?st?v m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. constitution
2. ustav

Declension

References

• “ustav” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal