palochka

Meaning

Noun

• A letter added to the Cyrillic alphabet when used in writing several of the Caucasian languages. It looks exactly like uppercase Roman letter , but had no lowercase form until recently. In the days of the mechanical typewriter, this letter was the Roman numeral , which was included on most Cyrillic typewriters for use in typing dates (e.g., ).

Origin

• From Russian па́лочка, diminutive of па́лка.