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  2. Roman numerals - Wikipedia

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    Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages.

  3. V - Wikipedia

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    V is used to represent the Roman numeral 5. V is the symbol for vanadium. It is number 23 on the periodic table. Emerald derives its green coloring from either vanadium or chromium. v, v., and vs can also be used as an abbreviation for the word versus when between two or more competing items (e.g. Brown v. Board of Education).

  4. Roman numeral analysis - Wikipedia

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    B 7 becomes V 7 (or simply V; often V 9 or V 13 in a jazz context) C ♯ m 7 becomes VI m7 (also VI −7, VI min7, VIm, or VI −) D ♯ ø7 becomes VII ø7 (also VII m7b5, VII-7b5, or VII ø) In popular music and rock music, "borrowing" of chords from the parallel minor of a major key is commonly done.

  5. Latin alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.

  6. Latin numerals - Wikipedia

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    Thus Roman authors would write: ūnae litterae 'one letter', trīnae litterae 'three letters', quīna castra 'five camps', etc. Except for the numbers 1, 3, and 4 and their compounds, the plurale tantum numerals are identical with the distributive numerals (see below).

  7. List of Latin abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    q.v. qq.v. quod vide quae vide "which see" Imperative, [1] used after a term or phrase that should be looked up elsewhere in the current document or book. For more than one term or phrase, the plural qq.v. is used. re in re "in the matter of", "concerning" Often used to prefix the subject of traditional letters and memoranda.

  8. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of letters of the Latin script.The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'.

  9. List of classical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Although the Roman Catholic church adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1582, England / Britain, a Protestant nation, didn't adopt it until 1752.) O.T. – Old Testament Oxon. – Oxonium, Oxonienses ("Oxford", "Theologians or Scholars of Oxford")