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  • noun Ligature of the lower‐case letters c and t. A round, leftward line from the up‐most tip of t is drawn onto the upper end of c, joining the letters.
  • noun carat

Etymologies

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The digraph of Latin consonants c and t were often ligated in many writings due to how common they were.

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