Abbreviated form | Full form |
Apr. | April |
Aug. | August |
ca. | circa (around) |
cf. | confer (compare) |
Dec. | December |
email | electronic mail |
et al. | et alii (and others) |
e.g. | exempli gratia (for example) |
etc. | et cetera (and so forth) |
Feb. | February |
Fri. | Friday |
govt. | government |
ibid. | ibidem (in the same place) |
i.e. | id est (that is) |
Jan. | January |
Mar. | March |
Mon. | Monday |
nat. | national |
Nov. | November |
Oct. | October |
Sat. | Saturday |
Sep. | September |
sic | sic erat scriptum (thus was it written) |
sig. | signature |
soc. | society |
Sun. | Sunday |
Thurs. | Thursday |
trans. | translator, translation, translated by |
Tues. | Tuesday |
univ. | university |
vs | versus (against) |
Wed. | Wednesday |
Wi-Fi | wireless local area network |
Recommended citation:
«Common contractions, truncations and initialisms» [en línia]. A: Llibre d’estil de la Universitat de Barcelona. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona. Serveis Lingüístics. <https://www.ub.edu/llibre-estil/criteri.php?id=2488> [consulta: 19 abril 2024].