è

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è U+00E8, è
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
Composition:e [U+0065] + ◌̀ [U+0300]
← ç
[U+00E7] 		Latin-1 Supplement é →
[U+00E9]

Translingual[edit]

Letter[edit]

è (upper case È)

  1. The letter e with a grave accent.

Usage notes[edit]

  • In French, Italian, Occitan and Catalan the è is pronounced /ɛ/ as opposed to é which is pronounced /e/.
  • In English the è is used only poetically in order to indicate that it is pronounced /ɛ/ as opposed to mute. In other words, it indicates a departure, for poetic purposes, from the usual pronunciation of the so-modified e.
  • In Italian it is used to indicate a stressed e, /ɛ/, at the end of a word.
  • In older writings on Old Icelandic or Old (West) Norse (e.g. A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue) è is used instead of the modern é to denote that the phoneme is different in character (a rising diphthong) compared to á, í, ó, ú and ý (falling diphthongs or monophthongs).

See also[edit]

English[edit]

Letter[edit]

è (lower case, upper case È, plural ès or è's)

  1. Found in words borrowed from other languages.
  2. Used poetically instead of e in order to indicate that it is pronounced /ɛ/ as opposed to mute. In other words, it indicates a departure, for poetic purposes, from the usual pronunciation of the so-modified.

Derived terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Corsican[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin et, from Proto-Indo-European *éti. Cognates include Italian e and Portuguese e.

Pronunciation[edit]

Conjunction[edit]

è

  1. and

References[edit]

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From a, a distinctly Quebec contracted form of elle, + est.

Pronunciation[edit]

Phrase[edit]

è

  1. (Quebec) she's, it's: contraction of elle est.

See also[edit]

Italian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • e' (misspelling)

Etymology[edit]

From Latin est, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

è

  1. third-person singular present indicative of essere; is
    Se non è vero, è ben trovato
    If it is not true, it is a good story.

Usage notes[edit]

The uppercase form (È) is often incorrectly written as E', especially in print.

Mandarin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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Romanization[edit]

è (Zhuyin ㄜˋ)

  1. Pinyin transcription of 偔
  2. Pinyin transcription of 僫
  3. Pinyin transcription of 儍
  4. Pinyin transcription of 卾
  5. Pinyin transcription of 厄
  6. Pinyin transcription of 呃
  7. Pinyin transcription of 呝
  8. Pinyin transcription of 咢
  9. Pinyin transcription of 咹
  10. Pinyin transcription of 哐
  11. Pinyin transcription of 啛
  12. Pinyin transcription of 噩
  13. Pinyin transcription of 圔
  14. Pinyin transcription of 垩
  15. Pinyin transcription of 堊
  16. Pinyin transcription of 堨
  17. Pinyin transcription of 堮
  18. Pinyin transcription of 岋
  19. Pinyin transcription of 峈
  20. Pinyin transcription of 崿
  21. Pinyin transcription of 嶭
  22. Pinyin transcription of 恶
  23. Pinyin transcription of 悪
  24. Pinyin transcription of 惡
  25. Pinyin transcription of 愕
  26. Pinyin transcription of 戹
  27. Pinyin transcription of 扼
  28. Pinyin transcription of 搤
  29. Pinyin transcription of 搹
  30. Pinyin transcription of 櫮
  31. Pinyin transcription of 歹
  32. Pinyin transcription of 湂
  33. Pinyin transcription of 琧
  34. Pinyin transcription of 砐
  35. Pinyin transcription of 硆
  36. Pinyin transcription of 胺
  37. Pinyin transcription of 腭
  38. Pinyin transcription of 苊
  39. Pinyin transcription of 萼
  40. Pinyin transcription of 蕚
  41. Pinyin transcription of 蘀
  42. Pinyin transcription of 蚅
  43. Pinyin transcription of 蛤
  44. Pinyin transcription of 蝁
  45. Pinyin transcription of 覨
  46. Pinyin transcription of 詻
  47. Pinyin transcription of 誒
  48. Pinyin transcription of 諤
  49. Pinyin transcription of 讍
  50. Pinyin transcription of 谔
  51. Pinyin transcription of 豟
  52. Pinyin transcription of 貖
  53. Pinyin transcription of 軛
  54. Pinyin transcription of 軶
  55. Pinyin transcription of 轭
  56. Pinyin transcription of 遌
  57. Pinyin transcription of 遏
  58. Pinyin transcription of 遻
  59. Pinyin transcription of 邐
  60. Pinyin transcription of 鄂
  61. Pinyin transcription of 鍔
  62. Pinyin transcription of 鑩
  63. Pinyin transcription of 锷
  64. Pinyin transcription of 閼
  65. Pinyin transcription of 阏
  66. Pinyin transcription of 阨
  67. Pinyin transcription of 阸
  68. Pinyin transcription of 隘
  69. Pinyin transcription of 頞
  70. Pinyin transcription of 顎, 颚
  71. Pinyin transcription of 餓, 饿
  72. Pinyin transcription of 餩
  73. Pinyin transcription of 鬬
  74. Pinyin transcription of 魥
  75. Pinyin transcription of 鰐, 鱷, 鳄
  76. Pinyin transcription of 鶚, 鹗
  77. Pinyin transcription of 齂
  78. Pinyin transcription of 齶
  79. Pinyin transcription of 㓵

References[edit]

Min Nan[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of è – see 呃 (“to belch; to hiccup; to hiccough; etc.”).
(This character, è, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 呃.)


For pronunciation and definitions of è – see 曳 (“to drag; to pull; to float in the wind; to sway; etc.”).
(This character, è, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 曳.)


For pronunciation and definitions of è – see 穢 (“dirty; filthy; unclean; immoral; obscene; etc.”).
(This character, è, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 穢.)


For pronunciation and definitions of è – see 翳 (“shade; screen; nebula; etc.”).
(This character, è, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 翳.)


For pronunciation and definitions of è – see 裔 (“progeny, descendants, posterity”).
(This character, è, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 裔.)

Neapolitan[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Verb[edit]

è

  1. third-person singular present indicative of èssere
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