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单词 antiqua
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antiquan.

Brit. /anˈtiːk(w)ə/, /anˈtiːkvə/, U.S. /ænˈtik(w)ə/, /ænˈtikvə/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Antiqua.
Etymology: < German Antiqua roman type (1573), a clear, rounded, upright roman script (1553) < post-classical Latin antiqua (a1522 with reference to various roman scripts, with multiple distinguishing epithets, in a text from Augsburg), use as noun (short for littera antiqua ) of feminine of classical Latin antiquus antique adj. Compare Italian antiqua (1534) and lettera antiqua (1524), both with reference to roman script.The humanist typeface (see humanist adj. 3b), first used for the earliest printed books in Italy, is modelled on the humanist minuscule of the 15th cent., which is in turn based on the Carolingian minuscule used in MSS of classical and learned authors; humanist authors used Latin litterae antiquae (plural) of their own minuscule by 1425, and of its model by 1406; and the phrase is used already in classical Latin to denote old-fashioned letters. Compare the following earlier example of German Antiqua in an English context:1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. i. 4 The Germans..differ with us here, in calling all those sizes of letter Antiqua, which we, as well as the French, and other printing nations, comprehend under the name of Roman.
A form of lettering or type characterized by simple, upright, rounded letterforms; roman lettering or type, esp. as distinguished from black letter (black letter n. 1); (also) a typeface of this kind. Cf. Roman n.1 4.Typically in German contexts, esp. with reference to the move to using roman or humanist (Antiqua) styles of type rather than traditional gothic or black letter (Fraktur) typefaces.Also in the names of particular typefaces.
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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > Roman
Roman1548
white letter1687
antiqua1829
old style1884
1829 tr. in Encycl. Americana I. 147/1 Of the Latin character he [sc. Aldus Manutius] procured 14 kinds of type. Among the latter is the antiqua [Ger. die Antiqua], with which Bembus de Ætna, 1495, 4to., is printed; a very beautiful character.
1882 Printer's Circular Sept. 140/2 The Latin type—‘Antiqua’ in printer's parlance—was, broadly speaking, the creation of Italian humanism.
1990 D. Ó Cróinín & D. Ganz in tr. B. Bischoff Lat. Palaeography (1995) 148 At different dates in different regions, the new scripts became known and were copied outside Italy, the antiqua first of all.
2000 T. Benton in A. E. Cooley Afterlife of Inscriptions 168 Sans serif faces were used in official Fascist architectural lettering throughout most of the 1930s, giving way to an elegant Antiqua in the last years of the regime.

Compounds

General use as a modifier, as in antiqua font, antiqua letter, antiqua type, etc.
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1884 Gaelic Jrnl. Feb. 62/1 The chief importance of the northern type of the Anglo-Saxon script arises from its having been the forerunner of the Caroline minuscule, and thus the parent of the so-called Roman or antiqua type of our books and newspapers.
1966 S.H. Steinberg 500 yrs. of Printing (ed. 2) i. 30 The original profusion of types..sorted itself out into two streams: on the one hand, the ‘antiqua’ founts of ‘roman’ and ‘italics’; on the other, the ‘gothic’ founts of ‘Fraktur’ and ‘Schwabacher’. All the names are fanciful inventions of later writers.
1990 D. Ó Cróinín & D. Ganz in tr. B. Bischoff Lat. Palaeography (1995) 147 The Venetian printer Aldus Manutius introduced it [sc. Italic] in 1501, decades after the humanistica had become the model for the antiqua letters.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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