E

Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
Codepoint	U+0045
D ← Basic Latin → F

See also Appendix:Variations of "e"

See also ㅌ

Translingual

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin E, from Ancient Greek Ε (E, “Epsilon”).

Letter

E upper case (lower case e)

1. The fifth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter E):  Éé  Èè  Êê  Ḙḙ  Ěě  Ĕĕ  Ẽẽ  Ḛḛ  Ẻẻ  Ėė  Ëë  Ēē  Ȩȩ  Ęę  ᶒ  Ɇɇ  Ȅȅ  Ếế  Ềề  Ễễ  Ểể  Ḝḝ  Ḗḗ  Ḕḕ  Ȇȇ  Ẹẹ  Ệệ  ⱸ  ᴇ  Ｅｅ  Ææ  Ǽǽ  Ǣǣ  &  Œœ  ᵫ
• See Appendix:Variations of "e"
• (other scripts) Ε (E, “Epsilon”) Е (je)

Symbol

E

1. Representing × 10^x in floating-point notation.

   2E5 = 2 × 10⁵

2. (computing) Hexadecimal symbol for 14.
3. (physics) Energy.
4. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for glutamic acid
5. (mathematics) expectation function

See also

Other representations of E:

NATO phonetic: Echo Morse code: · Braille: ⠑ ASL Manual: E

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

• Letter styles
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  Capital and lowercase versions of E, in normal and italic type

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  Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur

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English

Pronunciation

• (phoneme, usually): IPA: /ɛ/, /iː/, or silent

  Audio (UK)

  (file)

• (letter name): IPA: /iː/, SAMPA: /i:/

  Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1

From Middle English and Old English upper case letter E and split of Æ, EA, EO, and Œ, from five 7th century replacements of Anglo-Saxon Futhorcs by Latin letters:

• Old English letter E, from replacement by Latin letter E of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛖ (e).
• Old English letter Æ from replacement by Latin ligature Æ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚫ (æ).
• Old English digraph EA, from replacement by Latin digraph EA of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛠ (ea).
• Old English digraph EO from replacement by Latin digraph EO of Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛇ (ēo).
• Old English letter Œ from replacement by Latin ligature Œ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛟ (œ).

Letter

E uppercase (lowercase e)

1. The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz ^[edit]

Number

E upper case (lower case e)

1. The ordinal number fifth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

• (ESRB rating, everyone): Abbreviation of everyone
• (East): Abbreviation of east
• (slang, ecstasy): Abbreviation of ecstacy
• (grade): From the position of the letter E in the English alphabet

Symbol

E

1. (ESRB rating) Everyone.
2. East

Noun

E (plural Es)

1. (street slang) The illicit drug ecstasy (MDMA).
2. The grade below D in some grading systems. In most such systems, it is a failing grade.
   • 1999, Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, Verso, ISBN 1859843182, page 25,

     In line with this, he is marketed not only as a mental innocent, but as a class primitive, someone who only got an E in A-level art […]

   • a2003, Rick, quoted in Linda MacDowell, Redundant Masculinities?: Employment Change and White Working Class Youth, Blackwell Publishing (2003), ISBN 1405105860, page 198,

     My results weren’t that great, to be honest. I weren’t right happy with them; I got an E in Maths and that were a surprise, but I did get a B in Technology – that were all right.

   • 2005, S. J. Smith, Joe Public, Virtualbookworm Publishing, ISBN 1589397681, page 125,

     Not really, but perhaps I’d have got an ‘E’ in Tech Drawing no matter how much I’d asserted myself. Maybe Mr. Pinkerton would have seen to it that my exam paper was tampered with. A spot of teacher to student revenge.

   • 2005, Craig Taylor, Light, Reverb, ISBN 1905315007, page 103,

     But she didn’t get the bit about my accidental artistic career, “But you can’t draw love. You got an E in your exam. I remember that. You drew that onion that looked like a boil.”

Translations

slang: ecstasy

Chinese: Cantonese: E仔 (zh)

French: Hebrew (fr)

grade below D

Chinese: 戊 (zh)

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American Sign Language

Letter

(Stokoe E)

1. The letter E

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Azeri

Letter

E upper case (lower case e)

1. The sixth letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) hərf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Əə, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Xx, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Qq, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz ^[edit]

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /eː/

Letter

E (capital, lowercase e)

1. The fifth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

• Previous letter: D
• Next letter: F

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /e/
• (phoneme): IPA: /e/

Letter

E upper case (lower case e)

1. The sixth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) litero; Aa, Bb, Cc, Ĉĉ, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ĝĝ, Hh, Ĥĥ, Ii, Jj, Ĵĵ, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Ŝŝ, Tt, Uu, Ŭŭ, Vv, Zz ^[edit]

Abbreviation

E

1. Abbreviation of eosto (“east”).

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Finnish

Noun

E

1. eximia cum laude approbatur

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French

Abbreviation

E

1. Abbreviation of est; east

Letter

E

1. The fifth letter of the French alphabet.

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Galician

Abbreviation

E

1. leste (east)

Synonyms

• (east): L

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʔeː/

• Audio

  (file)

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

1. The fifth letter of the German alphabet.

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

• (name of letter) IPA: /e/

  Homophone: e

• (phoneme) IPA: /e/, /ɛ/, SAMPA: /e/, /E/

  Homophones: e, è

Letter

E m. and f. inv. (lower case e)

1. The fifth letter of the Italian alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) lettera; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, (Jj), (Kk), Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, (Ww), (Xx), (Yy), Zz ^[edit]
• Italian alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Italian alphabet

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /e/, /je/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

1. The seventh letter of the Romanian alphabet.

Usage notes

At the beginnings of many words, this letter takes on the sound of /je/ as in este (“he/she/it is”) /'je.ste/. This does not happen when the preceding word ends in a vowel, as in el este (“he is”) /jel'es.te/.

When followed by the letter a, a dipthong representing the phoneme /e̯a/ or /æ/ is formed, as in prea /præ/

See also

• Previous letter: D
• Next letter: F

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Slovene

Wikipedia ^sl

Letter

E (capital, lowercase e)

1. The 6th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by D and followed by F.

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Somali

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA: /ɛ/, /e/
• (letter name): IPA: /ʔɛ/

Letter

E upper case (lower case e)

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Somali alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by A and followed by I.

See also

• (Latin script letters) '', Bb, Tt, Jj, Xx, KHkh, Dd, Rr, Ss, SHsh, DHdh, Cc, Gg, Ff, Qq, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Ww, Hh, Yy, Aa, Ee, Ii, Oo, Uu ^[edit]

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Spanish

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

1. The fifth letter of the Spanish alphabet.

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Turkish

Letter

E upper case (lower case e)

1. The sixth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) harf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz ^[edit]