单词 | scriptio defectiva |
释义 | scriptio defectivan. A style of spelling in Semitic languages (esp. Hebrew) in which vowel sounds are not represented by letters which also represent (and originally represented) consonants. Cf. scriptio plena n. and see note at that entry. ΚΠ 1839 T. J. Conant tr. F. H. W. Gesenius Hebrew Gram. 30 A long vowel of the second or third class may be written either with or without the vowel letter. The former case is called scriptio plena, the latter scriptio defectiva. 1895 A. A. Bevan in S. D. F. Salmond Crit. Rev. Theol. & Philos. Lit. V. 127 Among the Hebrews of the kingly period the scriptio defectiva was also the rule. 1945 Zeitschr. f. Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 20 50 [This form] is only possible as transliteration of the scriptio defectiva. 1963 J. Gray I & II Kings 270 If this noun were in scriptio defectiva we might postulate dittography of n and read Sidon. 2008 G. Böwering in G. S. Reynolds Qur’ān in Hist. Context iii. 75 The earliest Qur'ān codices were written in a scriptio defectiva that included only the consonantal skeleton. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1839 |
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