f

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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER F
Basic Latin	U+0066

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Letter 1.2.1 See also 1.3 Symbol 1.4 See also 2 English 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Letter 2.3.1 Derived terms 2.4 Abbreviation 2.4.1 Derived terms 2.4.2 Synonyms 2.4.3 Translations 2.5 See also 3 Dutch 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Letter 3.3 See also 4 Italian 4.1 Noun 5 Romanian 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Letter 6 Spanish 6.1 Letter

[edit] Translingual

Wikipedia

[edit] Etymology

Modification of upper case Latin letter F, from Greek Ϝ (W), “‘Digamma’”), from Phœnician 𐤅 (W), “‘waw’”), the ultimate source being probably Egyptian.

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f lower case (upper case F)

1. The sixth 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 F):  Ḟḟ  Ƒƒ  ᵮ  ᶂ  ꜰ  Ｆｆ  ff  fi  fl

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f

1. (music) forte

[edit] See also

Other representations of F:

NATO phonetic: Foxtrot Morse code: ··–· Braille: ⠋ ASL Manual: F

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

Letter styles

Capital and lowercase versions of F, in normal and italic type

Uppercase and lowercase F in Fraktur

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Old English lower case letter f, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case f of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚠ (f), “‘fe’”). f is most closely related to p, k, v, and b; as in English five from Greek πέντε (pente); English wolf, from Latin lupus, and Greek lykos; English fox, vixen; fragile, break; fruit, brook; English verb bear, from Latin ferre.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ɛf/, SAMPA: /Ef/

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• (phoneme): IPA: /f/
• See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 178, 179, 188, 198, 230 in the 1913 Webster dictionary

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f (lower case, upper case F)

1. Lower case form of F. The letter eff, the sixth letter of the English alphabet, a nonvocal labiodental fricative consonant.
2. (music) The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F♯) is a tone intermediate between F and G.

[edit] Derived terms

F clef, the bass clef. See under Clef.

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f

1. (grammar) feminine
2. (printing) Folio, paper and book size (10"-12.5" x 15"-20")
3. (euphemism) fuck

   What the f do you think you're doing ?

[edit] Derived terms

• effing and blinding

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• (folio paper and book size): F, fo

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

• F
• c
• m
• n

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ɛf/

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f (lower case, upper case F)

1. The sixth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

[edit] See also

• Previous letter: e
• Next letter: g

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

f m. and f. inv.

1. See under F

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /fe/, /ef/

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f (lowercase, capital F)

1. The eighth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /f/. Preceded by e and followed by g.

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Letter

f (lower case, upper case F)

1. The seventh letter of the Spanish alphabet.