m

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Letter m.svg
Unicode name LATIN SMALL LETTER M
Codepoint U+006D
l ← Basic Latin → n

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[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Etymology 1

Greek Μ (M, “Mu”), from which Latin upper case and lower case m were derived Modification of capital letter M, from Ancient Greek letter Μ (M, Mu).

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m lower case (upper case M)

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

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[edit] Etymology 2

Various abbreviations

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m

  1. meter (metre), the unit of length in the International System of Units
  2. milli-
  3. (phonetics) used in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the bilabial nasal (IPA: /m/), including Cyrillic м (m, em), the beginning of various kana including  (ma), and Korean jamo  (m, mieum).
  4. mass

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From upper case roman numeral M (1000), an alteration of , from , an alteration of , an alteration of , from encircling X (the roman numeral for ten) to indicate the hundredth ten.

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m (lower case roman numeral, upper case M)

  1. (Roman numerals) cardinal number one thousand (1000)
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Other representations of M:


[edit] English

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m lowercase (uppercase M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.
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m lower case (upper case M)

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

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m

  1. metre
  2. (grammar) masculine
  3. mile
  4. milli
  5. million
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[edit] Azeri

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m lower case (upper case M)

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

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[edit] Dutch

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

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m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

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  • Previous letter: l
  • Next letter: n

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[edit] Esperanto

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m lower case (upper case M)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called mo and written in the Latin script.

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[edit] French

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m lower case (upper case M)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
    • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter III:
      L’aube du jour commençait à poindre quand don Quichotte sortit de l’hôtellerie, si content, si glorieux, si plein de ravissement de se voir armé chevalier, que sa joie en faisait tressaillir jusqu’aux sangles de son cheval.
      The dawn of the day was beginning to break when Don Quixote left the inn, so content, so glorious, so full of ravishment of seeing himself armed a knight, that his joy made him tremble all the way to the girths of his horse.

[edit] Haitian Creole

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Contraction of mwen from French moi.

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m

  1. Contraction of mwen.

[edit] Italian

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m m. and f. inv.

  1. See under M

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m

  1. eat

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m

  1. A letter from the Latin alphabet.

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m

  1. Marcus

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m

  1. Nonstandard spelling of ḿ.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of .

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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.


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m lower case (upper case M)

  1. The m letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called 14 or eme 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 375:
      Confiem em mim. Sei o que estou fazendo...
      Trust me. I know what I'm doing...

[edit] Romanian

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  • IPA: /me/, /em/

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m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /m/. Preceded by l and followed by n.

[edit] Serbo-Croatian

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  • (uppercase): M

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  • (phoneme) IPA: /m/

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m (Cyrillic spelling м)

  1. The 18th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet, preceded by lj and followed by n.

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m (Cyrillic spelling м)

  1. (grammar) masculine gender
  2. meter (unit of length)

[edit] Spanish

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m (lower case, upper case M)

  1. The 13th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

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m- (pl. differs per definition)

  1. A noun class denoting a child. (pl. wa-)
  2. A noun class denoting a plant. (pl. mi-)

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m

  1. w/, with; Abbreviation of med.
  2. Moderate Party; Abbreviation of Moderaterna.

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[edit] Turkish

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m lower case (upper case M)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called me and written in the Latin script.

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