contraction

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In paleography: Abbreviations
…into two classes, suspension and contraction. Suspension, omission of the end of a word and indication by a point or sign, was used in Roman public inscriptions—e.g., IMP.(ERATOR), CAES.(AR). Contraction, the omission of letters from the middle of a word and replacement by a sign or some other device, was…
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