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latin – Conventions of abbreviations of pages (pp.), for academic …

In medieval Latin pp. is an abbreviation for paginae (pages). Since educated people often studied Latin, these abbreviations came into modern languages. Plurals were often indicated by duplication of a letter, e.g. MSS for manuscripta (manuscripts). See Manuscript abbreviations in Latin and English: the plural may be formed by duplicating the …