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A crossed stroke closing a genitive plural.
Also known as: Genitive plural abbreviation, Crossed r abbreviation
The scribal mark standing for the ending -rum, common at the close of a genitive plural.
Stands for the ending -rum in a Latin manuscript hand.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Abbreviates a grammatical case ending, so its frequency on a page is a rough indication of how much of the text is a list of possessions or of names.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A letter r with a stroke drawn through its descender or tail at the end of a word.