Definition of signary in English:
signary
nounPlural signaries ˈsɪɡnəri
The signs constituting the syllabic or alphabetic symbols of a language.
Example sentencesExamples
- To demonstrate this, McManus divides consideration of the origin of the Ogam alphabet into two areas: its signary and its internal structure.
- The word ‘rune’ comes from the Norse and means not only an alphabetic signary, but also ‘mystery.’
- For this the scribes devised a set of ideograms and phonetic symbols based on a signary of twenty-four characters, with which in theory there was nothing that could not be written.
- The same signary was also used in the early historical period to write Greek; by the end of the third century B.C., Greek alphabetic writing had almost completely supplanted the native script.
- The frequency distribution can be compared with those of sets of the same signs in other places in order to identify the signary or signs and obtain clues about the language.
Origin
Early 20th century: from Latin signum 'mark, token' + -ary1, on the pattern of syllabary.