Antiquity(noun) the quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity. Antiquity(noun) old age. Antiquity(noun) ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.
Syllabic consonant. A syllabic consonant or vocalic consonant is a consonant that forms a syllable on its own, like the m, n and l in the English words rhythm, button and bottle, or is the nucleus of a syllable, like the r sound in the American pronunciation of work.
A syllabic abbreviation is an abbreviation formed from (usually) initial syllables of several words, such as Interpol = International + police. It is a variant of the acronym.n French, the period only follows an abbreviation if the last letter in the abbreviation is not the last letter of its antecedent: M. is the abbreviation for monsieur while Mme is that for madame.