palaeotype

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An old book printed between 1500 and 1550.
    — The library of the British Museum is […] rich in manuscripts, rich in palaeotypes, rich in the science, history, and literature of every age and nation.
  2. A phonetic alphabet developed by Alexander John Ellis to represent all spoken sounds of English by means of the printing types that were in common use in the mid-19th century, one of the predecessors of IPA. historical
    — Of course for publication in a newspaper, my palaeotype would not answer, but my glossotype would enable the author to give his Pennsylvania German in an English form and much more intelligibly.

词形变化

palaeotypes plural paleotype alternative

词汇关系

相关词
palaeotypical palaeotypically

词源

From New Latin palaeotypus (“which dates from the early days of printing; incunabulum, paleotype”), synchronically palaeo- + type.
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