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22 // COASTWEEKEND.COM BOOK SHELF // GLIMPSE // WILDLIFE // POP CULTURE // WORDS // Q&A // FOOD // FUN NW word nerd By RYAN HUME ℞ [ɑr•ɛks] noun 1. a ligature and symbol used to abbreviate the term, “prescription.” ℞ is also written out as the subscript, R x , or more commonly as the double glyph, Rx Origin: Ligatures — a type of shorthand that blends two separate letters into a symbol, like the ampersand for example — arose before the introduction of the printing press around 1440 as a way for scribes, who handwrote manuscripts, to produce work or copies faster. ℞ is fi rst noticed in medieval manuscripts as an abbreviation for the imperative Latin, recipe!, meaning “take!,” which is the command form of the verb, recipere, “to take” or “to receive.” Travelling through Mid- dle French as récipé, around the 1580s, with the same direct connotation, it origi- nally retained its verb status when it entered the English language and medical jar- gon later. 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