Recently, a lot of foreign and Russian words have been used in the media, the meaning of which is not known to most ordinary people. For example, this is a postscript and an epilogue. Also, one of these words of interest to people is “notabene”. This is an abbreviated phrase, the meaning of which we will talk right now.
Latin origin nota bene
People who graduate from a medical university or college are familiar with this phrase. After all, they study the Latin language, where does nota bene come from. Translated from the original “notabene” - this is “well notice.” We in Russian can understand it as “pay due attention”. It comes from two words: notare - "to note", bene - "good."
Meaning of the word “notabene” and permissible abbreviations
The phrase is used to draw the reader's attention to the information provided. It can be marked as a specific paragraph, part of the text, and the entire document. Although the latter option in modern times is not used. But it can be seen in medieval writings. As you know, in those days, the Latin language was widely used among figures of various sciences.
The phrase nota bene can be written in Latin or Cyrillic letters, and abbreviations are allowed. Most often you can see NB, NB, Nb, nb, NB, and also as a ligature - N B.
In addition, full spelling in Cyrillic and Latin is permissible . In both cases, it can be written with a lowercase or uppercase letter, but without quotes.
Notabene is not only a label on the special importance of written on paper
In order to reduce the number of repetitions of company names in the register, as well as to stand out from other companies, many modern companies use this word as their name. For example, there is “Nota Ben”, working in the field of information technology, as well as the publishing house “Notabene”. Various shops, catering establishments and so on are called such an interesting name. So the search word can match the name of the company.
Notabene as a marking to attract readers' attention is rarely used in English, Russian and many other languages. For example, Americans instead make the so-called mail script - PS, which in translation from the original sounds like “after the signature”. However, in some documents and letters it can still be seen as a postscript (after the text) or at the very beginning of the notaben. This word is usually shortened to two letters and is as follows: NB