a town of the kingdom of Hungary, in the province of the Farther Theiss, the capital of a circle of the same name. It stands at the influx of the river Itza to the Theiss. It contains a Catholic college, and churches for that sect, one for the Lutherans and one for the Unitarians, with 6850 inhabitants. The greater part of the kingdom is supplied with salt from this place. Long. 24. 16. 25. E. Lat. 47. 56. 8. N.
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T, or t, the nineteenth letter and sixteenth consonant of our alphabet; the sound of which is formed by a strong expulsion of the breath through the mouth, upon a sudden drawing back of the tongue from the fore-part of the palate, with the lips at the same time open. The proper sound of t is expressed in most words beginning or ending with that letter; as in take, tell, hot, put. Ti before a vowel has the sound of si, or rather of shi, as in creation, except when s precedes, as in question; and derivatives from words ending in ty, as mighty, mightier. Th has two sounds; the one soft, as thou, father; the other hard, as thing, think. The sound is soft in these words, then, thence, and there, with their derivatives and compounds; and in the words that, this, thus, thy, they, though; and in all words in which th comes between two vowels, as, whether, rather; and between r and a vowel, as burthen.
In abbreviations, among the Roman writers, T. stands for Titus, Titius, &c.; Tab. for Tabularius; Tab. P. H. C. Tabularius Provincia Hispaniae Citerioris; Tar. Tarquinius; Ti. Tiberius; Ti. F. Tiberii filius; Ti. L. Tiberii libertus; Ti. N. Tiberii Nepos; T. J. A. V. P. V. D. tempore judicium arbitrorum postulat ut det; T. M. P. terminum posuit; T. M. D. D. terminum dedicavit; Tr. trans, tribunus; Tr. M. or Mil. tribunus militum; TR. PL. DES. tribunus plebis designatus; TR. AER. tribunus aerarii; TRV. CAP. triumviri capitales; T. P. or TRIB. POT. tribunicia potestate; Tul. H. Tullus Hostilius. Among the ancients, T, as a numeral, stood for one hundred and sixty; and with a dash at top, thus T, it signified one hundred and sixty thousand. In music, T stands for tutti, "all, or altogether."