Talk:List of Latin abbreviations

message: I just made some minor edits, but I think this page needs uniform formatting. Also, should the description of "stet" be moved to "sic"? I am pretty sure that description applies to "sic", but I have never heard "stet" before.
-Vessels42 23:52, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: stet is used extensively in proofreading. WLD 18:44, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

text: "No one uses A.B." --- really? This abbreviation, while not as popular as B.A., is still in use. See, for example: http://www.commencement.harvard.edu/background/degree_notes.html http://spinner.cofc.edu/~classics/ab_degree.html http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/dos/transfer/require.html http://www.brynmawr.edu/conferences/commencement/ab.htm -- all fine institutions, and just four examples. Accordingly, I have returned A.B. to the main portion of the page. Lovibond (talk) 05:12, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Formatting & stet

message: --Might it be profittable to include in each a prescribed usage or a list of where this may commonly occur?
Thank you, Zach Beauvais 00:23, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Usage?

message: i recently saw this in an old translated textbook.  it reads "resume the notation on page 279 sq." what does the sq mean? my best guess is that it's a latin abbreviation, but i can't find the meaning anywhere.  the text is a 1959 english translation of a german text on optics published in 1899.  maybe someone can add this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.17.198.83 (talk) 20:51, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: sq

message: Hope I've taken care of the above issues with the table. I tried my best with the formatting, but there are certainly some changes that could be made. I'll be working on the next section at User:Scientific29/Project. Help would be welcome! Thanks. Scientific29 (talk) 04:11, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  New chart 

message: See entry for ibid.:
The abbreviation is used in citations. It should not be confused with the following abbreviation. It is better pronounced ibídem, with stress on the second -i- (as it was in Latin).
The sentence above, in bold, is an orphan, as well as obvious and unnecessary. I'd argue that "It" (ibid.) should not be confused with any abbreviation if possible. I would think this goes without saying.
One may perhaps more objectively say that ibidem and idem are often confused with one another due to their structural similarities, but that's a claim that would require sourcing, and, again, I question the helpfulness of its inclusion.
Quetzalcoatl42 (talk) 20:18, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unnecessary sentence 

message: Am I correct in thinking there was an older abbreviation c/ for cum, meaning "with"?
And that c/ has largely been replaced by w/ in ordinary usage? Varlaam (talk) 00:04, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't believe so. The abbreviation c is still used though. Steepleman (t) 07:47, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  c/ 

message: Isn't it inconsistent to include D.G., with specific reference to UK coinage, and not include F.D. ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.26.228.188 (talk) 07:05, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  F.D. 

message: I've used "pp." all my life without really thinking about why we use two 'p's to mean more than one page. Thought about it today and wondering if it means 'pāginae plūrālēs.' Otherwise, I can't think of any other logical reason why we reduplicate the 'p'. Any thoughts? I can't find any site which gives this as the Latin for 'pp.' All I find is 'pāgina' for the single 'p.' which most English speakers think of as meaning the English equivalent 'page' anyways. Iainsona (talk) 21:02, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  pp. 

message: Seems to have been an inadvertant change at this edit.  So I fixed.  See discussion at Talk:Kid_vs._Kat#Requested_move_20_December_2014.  Dicklyon (talk) 18:35, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why no period after vs? 

message: Χ is not a Latin abbreviation for Christ, but rather Greek (Χ = chi). See Xmas. Tomásdearg92 (talk) 16:20, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Χ 

message: ...and the very first abbreviation, AD, does not have a full stop. Either this sentence should be removed or the full stops should actually be added everywhere. I am not going to be bold here since I have absolutely no clue which option is more appropriate. --ᛒᚨᛊᛖ (ᛏᚨᛚᚲ) 22:23, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  All abbreviations are given with full stops... 

message: The text writes "ult. (ultimo mense): "last month" (see also inst. and prox.)[2]".
That is wrong. Ultimo mense means "last day of month". I know that you English speakers understand it as "last month". You should distinguish what it originally means and how English speakers use it in their crankiness ;-). Hayos (talk) 12:48, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last '''of''' Month 

message: See Talk:List of classical abbreviations. — LlywelynII 05:17, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: I believe V.I. (Venerate Iesum): "Venerate Jesus", as seen in the article at the bottom, was supposed to be Venerare, because it's a 1j dep. verb, with "venerāre" as the 2° s. prs. a. ipr. of veneror, since "venerate" is one letter off from "venerare". "venerate" is I believe 1d/2d ptcp. voc. m. s. of venerātus.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:203:101:906C:8EE:38C2:DA4D:57A1 (talk) 04:47, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Venerate 

message: This could also be read as quō vidē, that is ‘for which, see’ (an ablative); the plural of that would be ‘quīs vidē’. CannedMan (talk) 20:33, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  q.v. 

message: These are more common in actual Latin than in English use but see here for their appearance and meaning. — LlywelynII 00:06, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: h.e. and h.l.