Wiktionary:Todo/unhelpful abbreviations

These are unhelpful abbreviations used outside of quotations that are not well known by most viewers. Since we are not paper, they should be replaced with English text.

L

 * L. = "Latin" or

Gr

 * Gr. = "Greek or (or Ancient Greek/)"

esp

 * esp. = "especially"

qv

 * q.v. = usually "see"

infra supra

 * infra/supra = Latin for "above"/"below". If referring to another language section (usually "English" is above and the etymon language is below) use that distinction instead

cf

 * cf./cfr. = "compare"

c

 * &c. = "etc." is about 10x more common these days. Better yet, reword so as to avoid completely.

tr

 * tr. = "transitive", "transliteration", "translation" or a link to Turkish Wikipedia (in which case it shouldn't be here).

sth

 * sth/sthg = "something".

sbd

 * sbd. = "somebody".


 * Dummy References section (strictly to deal with errors)