Abh. Berl. Akad.

== German == === Etymology === Strictly speaking, an abbreviation of the informal shorthand form Abhandlungen der Berliner Akademie (“Treatises of the Berlin Academy”). There is considerable historical variation in the way writers referred to the Academy and to its periodical. === Proper noun === Abh. Berl. Akad. f pl (proper noun, plural only) (bibliography and lexicography) abbreviation of Abhandlungen der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (“Treatises of the Royal Prussian Academy of the Sciences at Berlin”) For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Abh. Berl. Akad.. ==== Usage notes ==== German orthography prescribes that, in an abbreviated phrase, spacing be retained between each abbreviated word and the next; that regulation is almost universally observed wherever Abh. Berl. Akad. occurs in German texts. Other languages are less observant of this rule, however, with divergent forms such as AbhBerlAkad. (Italian) and Abh.Berl.Akad. (English and Spanish) occasionally occurring. === References ===