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scopita

scopita [cf. ϛ+koppa+et+ϡ], (understood as) koppa, letter between pi and rho in archaic Greek alphabet used as numeral for 90 (in quot. perh. w. ref. to resemblance to inverted ‘5’). pro nonaginta interserunt notam numeri que non est littera alphabeti ‥ que est hujusmodi Ϟ sicut quinta figura algorismi et vocant illud ~a Bacon Gram. Gk. 80 (cf. id. Maj. III 117: episemon ϛ koppa [v. l. ~a] et character ϡ).

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