E
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E | |||
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| Codepoint | U+0045 | |||
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[edit] Translingual
[edit] Etymology
From Latin E, from Ancient Greek Ε (E, “Epsilon”).
[edit] Letter
E upper case (lower case e)
- The fifth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
[edit] 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)
[edit] Symbol
E
- Representing × 10x in floating-point notation.
- 2E5 = 2 × 105
- (computing) Hexadecimal symbol for 14.
- (physics) Energy.
- (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for glutamic acid
- (mathematics) expectation function
[edit] See also
Other representations of E:
- Letter styles
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Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur
[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- (phoneme, usually): IPA: /ɛ/, /iː/, or silent
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Audio (UK) (file)
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- (letter name): IPA: /iː/, SAMPA: /i:/
- Rhymes: -iː
[edit] 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).
[edit] Letter
E uppercase (lowercase e)
- The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
[edit] 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]
[edit] Number
E upper case (lower case e)
- The ordinal number fifth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
[edit] 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
[edit] Symbol
E
[edit] Noun
E (plural Es)
- (street slang) The illicit drug ecstasy (MDMA).
- 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.”
- 1999, Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, Verso, ISBN 1859843182, page 25,
[edit] Translations
[edit] American Sign Language
[edit] Letter
(Stokoe E)
- The letter E
[edit] Azeri
[edit] Letter
E upper case (lower case e)
- The sixth letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.
[edit] 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]
[edit] Dutch
[edit] Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA: /eː/
[edit] Letter
E (capital, lowercase e)
- The fifth letter of the Dutch alphabet.
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[edit] Esperanto
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Letter
E upper case (lower case e)
- The sixth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
[edit] 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]
[edit] Abbreviation
E
- Abbreviation of eosto (“east”).
[edit] Finnish
[edit] Noun
E
[edit] French
[edit] Abbreviation
E
[edit] Letter
E
- The fifth letter of the French alphabet.
[edit] Galician
[edit] Abbreviation
E
[edit] Synonyms
- (east): L
[edit] German
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Letter
E (upper case, lower case e)
- The fifth letter of the German alphabet.
[edit] Italian
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Letter
E m. and f. inv. (lower case e)
- The fifth letter of the Italian alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
[edit] 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
[edit] Romanian
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /e/, /je/
[edit] Letter
E (upper case, lower case e)
- The seventh letter of the Romanian alphabet.
[edit] 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/
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[edit] Slovene
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Letter
E (capital, lowercase e)
- The 6th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by D and followed by F.
[edit] Somali
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Letter
E upper case (lower case e)
- The twenty-fourth letter of the Somali alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
[edit] Usage notes
- The twenty-fourth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by A and followed by I.
[edit] 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]
[edit] Spanish
[edit] Letter
E (upper case, lower case e)
- The fifth letter of the Spanish alphabet.
[edit] Turkish
[edit] Letter
E upper case (lower case e)
- The sixth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
[edit] See also
- Latin script characters
- Translingual letters
- Translingual symbols
- mul:Computing
- mul:Physics
- mul:Amino acids
- mul:Mathematics
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English letters
- English numbers
- English ordinal numbers
- English symbols
- English nouns
- en:Compass points
- en:Recreational drugs
- American Sign Language letters
- Azeri letters
- Dutch letters
- Esperanto letters
- Esperanto abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
- Esperanto abbreviations
- eo:Compass points
- Finnish proper nouns
- French abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
- French abbreviations
- French letters
- fr:Compass points
- Galician abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
- Galician abbreviations
- German letters
- Italian terms with homophones
- Italian letters
- Italian nouns
- Romanian letters
- Slovene letters
- Somali letters
- Spanish letters
- Turkish letters
