noun
Meaning 1
An old book printed between 1500 and 1550.
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palaeotype
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noun
Meaning 2
A phonetic alphabet developed by Alexander John Ellis to represent all spoken sounds of English by means of the printing types that were in common use in the mid-19th century, one of the predecessors of IPA.
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Usage: historical
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History
Etymology
From New Latin palaeotypus (“which dates from the early days of printing; incunabulum, paleotype”), synchronically palaeo- + type.