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What (who) is uncial$94368$ - definition
WRITING SYSTEM FOR GREEK AND LATIN
Uncials; Half-uncial; Semi-uncial; Roman Half Uncial; Uncial Letters; Half uncial; Roman half uncial; Uncial writing; Uncial; Greek uncial
![A sample of the Latin text from the [[Codex Bezae]], 6th century AD](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Codex Bezae - Latin Luke 23-47-24-1 (The S.S. Teacher's Edition-The Holy Bible - Plate XXVI).jpg?width=200 "A sample of the Latin text from the [[Codex Bezae]], 6th century AD")
![Esther]] 2:3–8.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Codex sinaticus (The S.S. Teacher's Edition-The Holy Bible - Plate XXII).jpg?width=200 "Esther]] 2:3–8.")
![A 3rd-century script that can either be considered a rustic predecessor of semi-uncial or the earliest semi-uncial, [[Papyrus Oxyrhynchus]] 668](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 668 - British Library 1532r - Epitome of Livy - magnitudinem, Lusitani vastat.jpg?width=200 "A 3rd-century script that can either be considered a rustic predecessor of semi-uncial or the earliest semi-uncial, [[Papyrus Oxyrhynchus]] 668")
Uncial
·noun An uncial letter.
II. Uncial ·adj Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain style of letters used in ancient manuscripts, ·esp. in Greek and Latin manuscripts. The letters are somewhat rounded, and the upstrokes and downstrokes usually have a slight inclination. These letters were used as early as the 1st century ·b.c., and were seldom used after the 10th century ·a.d., being superseded by the cursive style.
uncial
['?ns??l, -?(?)l]
¦ adjective
1. denoting or written in a majuscule script with rounded separated letters which is found in European manuscripts of the 4th-8th centuries and from which modern capital letters are derived.
2. rare relating to an inch or an ounce.
¦ noun an uncial letter, script, or manuscript.
Origin
C17: from L. uncialis, from uncia 'inch' (in sense 1 from unciales litterae 'uncial letters').
Uncial 070
MANUSCRIPT
Uncial 0124; Uncial 0178; Uncial 0179; Uncial 0180; Uncial 0190; Uncial 0191; Uncial 0193; Uncial 0194; Uncial 0202; Uncial 0110; Codex 070; Fragmentum Woideanum
Uncial 070 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 6 (Soden), is a Greek-Coptic diglot uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 6th century.
Wikipedia
Uncial script
Uncial is a majuscule script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. Uncial letters were used to write Greek and Latin, as well as Gothic, and are the current style for Coptic and Nobiin.
