&

See also: Appendix:Variations of "et"

& U+0026, & AMPERSAND ← % [U+0025] Basic Latin ' → [U+0027]

﹠ U+FE60, ﹠ SMALL AMPERSAND ← ﹟ [U+FE5F] Small Form Variants ﹡ → [U+FE61]

＆ U+FF06, ＆ FULLWIDTH AMPERSAND ← ％ [U+FF05] Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ＇ → [U+FF07]

🙵 U+1F675, 🙵 SWASH AMPERSAND ORNAMENT ← 🙴 [U+1F674] Ornamental Dingbats 🙶 → [U+1F676]

🙴 U+1F674, 🙴 HEAVY AMPERSAND ORNAMENT ← 🙳 [U+1F673] Ornamental Dingbats 🙵 → [U+1F675]

Translingual

Ampersand evolution.

The roman ampersand at left is stylized, but the italic one at right reveals its origin in the Latin word et.

Etymology

A stylized form of Latin et (“and”). Romans used such symbols (ligatures) from at least the first century CE, but the character may not have acquired its present form until the advent of calligraphy in the Middle Ages. Compare ⁊, of same meaning and similar derivation.

Conjunction

&

1. Siglum of "and"

Symbol

&

1. (programming) Used in some programming languages for different purposes.
   1. Dereferencing memory address.
   2. Bitwise "and" operator.
2. (networking) In a URL, separates each field-value pair of a query string .

   http://example.com/form.asp?name1=value1&name2=value2

Synonyms

• ⁊

Derived terms

• (mathematics) ⅋
• & ;
• v& (to be arrested)

Related terms

• ⁊

See also

• 〆
• ϗ
• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Sſs  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
• (Letter combinations):  Ꜳꜳ  Ææ  ᴁᴭ  Ǽǽ  Ǣǣ  Ꜵꜵ  Åå  Ꜷꜷ  Ꜹꜹ  Ꜻꜻ  Ꜽꜽ  ct  ȸ  DZDzdz  DŽDždž  ᴂᵆ  ᴔ  &  ff  fi  ffi  fl  ffl  ℔  IJij  LJLjlj  Ỻỻ  Ŋŋ  NJNjnj  Œœ  ɶ  Ꝏꝏ  Ȣȣᴕ  ȹ  ẞß  ſtst  ᵫ  Ůů  Ww  Ꝡꝡ

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English

Conjunction

&

1. Siglum of "and"
   • 2011, David Almond, The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean, Candlewick Press (2014), →ISBN, 121:

     “Welcum to McCaufreys, Billy Dean” he says. “Make yorself at home & hav a pie.”

2. (dated) Abbreviation of et in Latin phrases such as et cetera.

Derived terms

• & al.
• & cetera, &c.
• & seq., & seqq.

Translations

abbreviation of and

• Catalan: & (ca)
• French: & (fr)
• German: u. (de)
• Greek: ϗ (ϗ)
• Irish: ⁊
• Italian: &

• Malay: &
• Portuguese: & (pt)
• Spanish: & (es) (normally used on translated English names that contain this character, but rarely elsewhere)
• Swedish: & (sv)
• Thai: & (th) (&)

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Catalan

Conjunction

&

1. i

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French

Conjunction

&

1. et

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Italian

Conjunction

&

1. Abbreviation of e, ed
2. (dated) Abbreviation of Latin et

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Japanese

Particle

& (katakana アンド, rōmaji ando)

1. Abbreviation of アンド.

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Portuguese

Conjunction

&

1. e

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Spanish

Conjunction

&

1. y
2. e

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Swedish

Conjunction

&

1. och