e

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Letter e.svg
Unicode name LATIN SMALL LETTER E
Codepoint U+0065
 d ← Basic Latin → f 
See also E, and Appendix:Variations of "e"

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[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Etymology

Approximate form of upper case letter E that was the source for lower case e Modification of capital letter E, from Ancient Greek letter Ε (E, “Epsilon”).

[edit] Letter

e lower case (upper case E)

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

[edit] See also

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Symbol

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e

  1. (mathematics) The base of natural logarithms, a transcendental number with a value of approximately 2.718281828459
  2. (IPA) close-mid front unrounded vowel

[edit] See also

Other representations of E:

  • Letter styles

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

  • Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur

  • Approximate form of upper case letter E in uncial script that was the source for lower case e

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English and Old English lower case letter e and split of æ, ea, eo, and œ, from five 7th century replacements of Anglo-Saxon Futhorcs by Latin letters:

  • Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛖ (e) Old English lower case letter e, from replacement by Latin letter e of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛖ (e).
  • Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚫ (æ) Old English lower case letter æ from replacement by Latin ligature æ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚫ (æ).
  • Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛠ (ea) Old English lower case digraph ea, from replacement by Latin digraph ea of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛠ (ea).
  • Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛇ (ēo) Old English lower case digraph eo from replacement by Latin digraph eo of Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛇ (ēo).
  • Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛟ (œ) Old English lower case letter œ from replacement by Latin ligature œ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛟ (œ).

[edit] Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /iː/
  • Audio (UK)
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Audio (US)
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  • (phoneme): IPA: /ɛ/, /iː/, /ə/, /eɪ/

[edit] Usage notes

In addition to the phonemes noted above, "e" can also be silent, representing no sound itself but indicating which phoneme another letter in the word represents. See the article "Silent e" on Wikipedia.

[edit] Letter

e lowercase (uppercase E)

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

[edit] See also

[edit] Number

e lower case (upper case E)

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

[edit] Noun

e (plural ees)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter E/e.

[edit] See also

[edit] Translations

name of the letter E, e
  • Arabic: إي (ar) ('ii) m., إيه (ar) ('iih) m.
  • Catalan: e (ca) f.
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)
  • Esperanto: e (eo)
  • Hindi: ई (hi) (ī)

[edit] Albanian

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Pronoun

e

  1. Third-person singular accusative-case pronominal clitic (him, her, it)
    S'e di.
    I don't know (it).

[edit] Article

e

  1. adjectival article for:
    1. definite masculine singular adjectives in all accusative case
    2. indefinite feminine singular adjectives in the nominative case
    3. definite plural and feminine singular adjectives in the nominative and accusative cases

[edit] See also

forms of the adjectival articles
masculine
(gjinia mashkullore)		 feminine
(gjinia femërore)		 plural
(numri shumës)
indefinite
(trajta të pashquara)		 definite
(trajta të shquara)		 indefinite
(trajta të pashquara)		 definite
(trajta të shquara)		 indefinite
(trajta të pashquara)		 definite
(trajta të shquara)
nominative
(emërore)		 i i e e të e
accusative
(kallëzore)		 të e të e të e
genitive, dative and ablative
(gjinore, dhanore dhe rrjedhore)		 të të të së të të
Note that regardless of the definite state of the noun being described, the definite articles are only used when immediately following a definite-form noun. If two adjectives (or other words that use these articles) come back to back, the second word's article will be indefinite.

Notice that while both adjectives require the adjectival article and the same masculine plural agreement, only the first adjectival article takes its definite form, as the second is not in the immediate environment of the modified definite noun.

[edit] Anglo-Norman

[edit] Etymology

Latin et.

[edit] Conjunction

e

  1. and

[edit] Angolar

[edit] Pronoun

e

  1. he

[edit] Azeri

[edit] Letter

e lower case (upper case E)

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

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[edit] Breton

[edit] Pronoun

e

  1. his

[edit] Preposition

e

  1. in

[edit] Usage notes

It contracts with the articles, see el, en and er.

[edit] Catalan

[edit] Noun

e f. (plural es)

  1. The Latin letter E (lowercase e).

[edit] Corsican

[edit] Conjunction

e

  1. and

[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eː
  • (letter name): IPA: /eː/

[edit] Letter

e (lower case, upper case E)

  1. The fifth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

[edit] See also

  • Previous letter: d
  • Next letter: f

[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /e/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /e/
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[edit] Letter

e lower case (upper case E)

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

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[edit] Noun

e (plural e-oj, accusative singular e-on, accusative plural e-ojn)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter E/e.

[edit] Galician

[edit] Conjunction

e

  1. and

[edit] Hawaiian

[edit] Particle

e

  1. used to mark the following verb as an infinitive; to

[edit] Hungarian

[edit] Etymology

From the same Uralic root *e as Finnish että and Estonian et.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈɛ/
  • (letter name): IPA: /ˈɛː/

[edit] Pronoun

e

  1. (archaic) this (used as a pronoun, that is, instead of a noun phrase, with postpositions taking nouns with cases)
    • 1836: Vörösmarty Mihály, Szózat
      A nagy világon e kivűl (modern spelling: kívül)
      Nincsen számodra hely;

[edit] Determiner

e (demonstrative)

  1. this
    E házban lakott Petőfi Sándor - Petőfi Sándor lived in this house.

[edit] Synonyms

[edit] Usage notes

A rarer substitute of ez, but unlike ez, it does not take the case of the noun it is attached to, and no definite article is used:

ezen a helyen - e helyen (at this place)
ebben a házban - e házban (in this house)

[edit] Interjection

e

  1. look!, hey! (expressing surprise or wanting to get attention)
    E! Hát Józsi meg hová tűnt? - Hey! Where is Joe?
    Itt van, e! - Here it is. (informal, not polite)

[edit] Letter

e (lower case, upper case E)

  1. The ninth letter of the Hungarian alphabet.

[edit] See also

  • Previous letter: dzs
  • Next letter: é

[edit] See also

  • -e (suffix)

[edit] Ido

[edit] Alternative forms

  • (before a vowel) ed

[edit] Conjunction

e

  1. and

[edit] Interlingua

[edit] Alternative forms

  • (rare) et

[edit] Conjunction

e

  1. and

[edit] Italian

[edit] Etymology

From Latin et.[1]

[edit] Alternative forms

  • (before a vowel) ed

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Conjunction

e

  1. and

[edit] References

  1. ^ Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951

[edit] Japanese

[edit] Syllable

e

  1. The hiragana syllable え (e) or the katakana syllable エ (e) in Hepburn romanization.

[edit] Noun

e (hiragana え)

  1. 餌: bait, lure
  2. 柄: handle, shaft, gripe, helve
  3. 絵, 画: picture, painting, drawing, illustration, tableau
  4. 江: inlet, bay
  5. え: hiragana letter e
  6. エ: katakana letter e

[edit] Particle

e (hiragana え)

  1. へ: particle indicating direction

[edit] Latin

[edit] Etymology 1

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[edit] Letter

e

  1. A letter of the Latin alphabet.

[edit] Etymology 2

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[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

ē (indeclinable)

  1. The name of the letter E.
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[edit] References

  • Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part III: “Summary of the Ancient Evidence”, page 32
      Clearly there is no question or doubt about the names of the vowels A, E, I, O, U. They are simply long A, long E, etc. (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). Nor is there any uncertainty with respect to the six mutes B, C, D, G, P, T. Their names are bē, cē, dē, gē, pē, tē (each with a long E). Or about H, K, and Q: they are hā, kā, kū — each, again, with a long vowel sound.

[edit] Etymology 3

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[edit] Preposition

ē (short form of ex)

  1. out of, from
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[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Lojban

[edit] Conjunction

e

  1. and; logically joins two sumti

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Romanization

e

  1. Nonstandard spelling of ē.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of é.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of ě.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of è.

[edit] Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

[edit] Navajo

[edit] Letter

E e

  1. The eighth letter of the Navajo alphabet:
    e = /ɛ˨/
    ę = /ɛ̃˨/
    é = /ɛ˥/
    ę́ = /ɛ̃˥/
    ee = /ɛː˨˨/
    ęę = /ɛ̃ː˨˨/
    ée = /ɛː˥˨/
    ę́ę = /ɛ̃ː˥˨/
    eé = /ɛː˨˥/
    ęę́ = /ɛ̃ː˨˥/
    éé = /ɛː˥˥/
    ę́ę́ = /ɛ̃ː˥˥/

[edit] Norwegian

[edit] Etymology 1

[edit] Letter

e

  1. The fifth letter of the Norwegian alphabet
[edit] Inflection
    Inflection of e
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Bokmål m e e-en e-er e-ene
Nynorsk m e e-en e-ar e-ane

[edit] Etymology 2

[edit] Verb

e

  1. (dialectal) Present tense of være (Bokmål), vera/vere (Nynorsk); equivalent to standardized er.

[edit] Occitan

[edit] Etymology

Old Provençal e < Latin et.

[edit] Conjunction

e

  1. and

[edit] Old French

[edit] Alternative forms

[edit] Conjunction

e

  1. and

[edit] Old Provençal

[edit] Conjunction

e

  1. and

[edit] Descendants

  • Occitan: e

[edit] Portuguese

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /i/
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  • (South Brazil) IPA: /e/

[edit] Letter

e lower case (upper case E) (with diacritics: é, ê)

  1. The fifth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called ê or é and written in the Latin script.
    • 2005, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Rocco, page 141:
      Quero conversar com os senhores e exijo sua total e absoluta atenção.
      I want to talk with you and I demand your total and absolute attention.

[edit] Etymology

From et (“and”), from Proto-Indo-European *éti.

[edit] Conjunction

e

  1. and
    • 2003, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Rocco, page 308:
      Você notou os cabelos dela, são negros e brilhantes e macios...
      You noticed her hair, it's dark and brilliant and soft...
    • 2007, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), Rocco, page 211:
      Mandaram lacrar todas as saídas e não deixar ninguém...
      They ordered me to seal all the exits and not to let anyone...

[edit] Synonyms

[edit] Noun

e m. (usually uncountable)

  1. (logic) and, conjunction

[edit] Rapa Nui

[edit] Particle

e

  1. agentive particle that marks the subject when a sensing verb is used

[edit] Usage notes

Only used with sensing verbs; otherwise use i.

[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation 1

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

[edit] Letter

e (lower case, upper case E)

  1. The seventh letter of the Romanian alphabet.
[edit] See also
  • Previous letter: d
  • Next letter: f
[edit] Usage notes

See E for pronunciation notes and details.

[edit] Interjection

e

  1. expression of annoyance, irritation
  2. expression of boredom, indifference
  3. (when prolonged...eee) surprise, satisfaction, admiration

[edit] Pronunciation 2

[edit] Verb

e

  1. (informal) third-person singular present tense form of fi.
    El e un copil.
    "He is a child."
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[edit] Scottish Gaelic

[edit] Etymology

From Old Irish é, hé.

[edit] Pronoun

e

  1. he
  2. him
  3. (referring to a masculine noun) it

[edit] Related terms

[edit] See also

[edit] Serbo-Croatian

[edit] Etymology 1

See Translingual section.

[edit] Alternative forms

  • (uppercase): E

[edit] Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /e/

[edit] Letter

e (Cyrillic spelling е)

  1. The 9th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by đ and followed by f.
[edit] Usage notes

Its name is е /ɛ/ and it has the sound of e in net.

[edit] Etymology 2

Variant of ej or hej

[edit] Interjection

e (Cyrillic spelling е)

  1. (rare) well, now
  2. (informal, at the beginning of the sentence) hey
  3. (informal, at the beginning of the sentence) Used to emphasize the sentence
    E, šta ima? — “Hey, what's up?”
  4. (informal, at the beginning of the sentence) Used to express surprise
    E, otkud ti? — “Hey, where did you come from?”
  5. (informal, at the beginning of the sentence) Used to get attention or change the topic of conversation, especially if followed by a (and, but)
    E, a vidi ovo. — “And look at this.”

[edit] Spanish

[edit] Etymology 1

[edit] Letter

e (lower case, upper case E)

  1. The fifth letter of the Spanish alphabet.

[edit] Noun

e f. (plural e)

  1. Name of the letter E.

[edit] Etymology 2

[edit] Alternative forms

[edit] Conjunction

e

  1. and
[edit] Usage notes

Used instead of y when the following word starts with the vowel sound /i/.

[edit] See also

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Pronunciation

Letter name
Phoneme
  • IPA: /eː/, /ɛ/, /ɛː/

[edit] Letter

e lower case (upper case E)

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

[edit] Verb

e

  1. (informal, Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative spelling of är (“is, are”).

[edit] Tahitian

[edit] Conjunction

e

  1. and

[edit] Aspect

e

  1. indicates that an action is unfinished when inserted before the verb

[edit] Turkish

[edit] Letter

e lower case (upper case E)

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

[edit] See also

[edit] Noun

e

  1. The name of the Latin script letter E/e.

[edit] See also

[edit] Tuvaluan

[edit] Marker

e

  1. present tense marker, inserted immediately before the relevant verb

[edit] Volapük

[edit] Conjunction

e

  1. and

[edit] See also

[edit] Welsh

[edit] Pronoun

e

  1. he, him.

[edit] Usage notes

E is used predominantly in the south of Wales, while o is used in the north. fe and fo are variants of e and o respectively.

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