short-hand
SHORT-HAND
ars dicta or dictata velocissime excipiendi (after Suet. Tit. 3): *tachygraphia (technical term): scripturae compendium. To write in short-hand notare (opposed to perscribere): to take down in short-hand per compendia excipere aliquid (e.g. cursim loquentis voces Cic. Manil. 4 198); notis excipere aliquid. (Prudentius uses punctis dicta praepetibus sequi and notare verba fictis signis. ☞ Abbreviare is low Latin: per notas scribere has a different meaning.) A short-hand writer notarius (one who takes down a speech etc. by the use of certain contractions notae; called poetically by Manil. Astron. 4 160 scriptor velox: ☞ Notarius velox is not Latin ☞ commentators on Plin. Ep. 3 5 15; Gesner Chrestom. Plin. p. 11 sq.): actuarius (one who takes notes of speeches delivered in a court; Vid: Suet. Caes. 55): scriptor velox cui littera verbum est (†).
ars dicta or dictata velocissime excipiendi (after Suet. Tit. 3): *tachygraphia (technical term): scripturae compendium. To write in short-hand notare (opposed to perscribere): to take down in short-hand per compendia excipere aliquid (e.g. cursim loquentis voces Cic. Manil. 4 198); notis excipere aliquid. (Prudentius uses punctis dicta praepetibus sequi and notare verba fictis signis. ☞ Abbreviare is low Latin: per notas scribere has a different meaning.) A short-hand writer notarius (one who takes down a speech etc. by the use of certain contractions notae; called poetically by Manil. Astron. 4 160 scriptor velox: ☞ Notarius velox is not Latin ☞ commentators on Plin. Ep. 3 5 15; Gesner Chrestom. Plin. p. 11 sq.): actuarius (one who takes notes of speeches delivered in a court; Vid: Suet. Caes. 55): scriptor velox cui littera verbum est (†).
short-hand (v. rare): nŏtae, arum (short-hand characters): s.-hand, by means of which the hand keeps up with the speed of the tongue, n., quibus celeritatem linguae manus sequitur, Sen. Ep. 90, 26: to take down in s.-hand very rapidly, notis excipere velocissime, Suet. Tit. 3: Paul. Dig. 37, 1, 6.