Meaning

2 senses
  1. A flourish made after or below one's signature, originally to prevent forgery.

    Paraphe

    пара́фparáf, ро́счеркrósčerk

    a flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery)

  2. A mark used by medieval rubricators to indicate textual division.

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
flourish after signature:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
flourish after signature:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English paraf, from Medieval Latin paraffus or its etymon Middle Fre

Inherited from Middle English paraf, from Medieval Latin paraffus or its etymon Middle French paraphe, paraffe, shortening of paragraphe,

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Forms

plural: paraphs
Singularparaph
Pluralparaphs

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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