E

See also: ㅌ and Appendix:Variations of "e"

Translingual

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English Wikipedia has an article on:

E

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin E, from Ancient Greek Ε (E, “Epsilon”).

Letter

E (lower case e)

The fifth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

E

(sciences, computing) Symbol separating mantissa from the exponent in scientific notation.
2E5 = 2 × 10⁵
(computing) Hexadecimal symbol for 14.
(physics) Energy.
(biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for glutamic acid
(mathematics) expectation function
Abbreviation of exa-.

Synonyms

(scientific notation): e

Gallery

Letter styles
Capital and lowercase versions of E, in normal and italic type
Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur

English

Pronunciation

(phoneme, usually): IPA^(key): /ɛ/, /iː/, or silent
Audio (UK): (file)
(letter name): IPA^(key): /iː/
Rhymes: -iː
(Chinese state): IPA^(key): /ə/
Rhymes: -ə

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English upper case letter E and split of Æ, EA, EO, and Œ, from five 7th century replacements of Anglo-Saxon Futhorcs by Latin letters:

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English letter E, from replacement by Latin letter E of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛖ (e).
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English letter Æ from replacement by Latin ligature Æ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚫ (æ).
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English digraph EA, from replacement by Latin digraph EA of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛠ (ea).
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English digraph EO from replacement by Latin digraph EO of Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛇ (ēo).
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English letter Œ from replacement by Latin ligature Œ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛟ (œ).

Letter

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E (upper case, lower case e, plural Es or E's)

The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
  
  On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D.

Number

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Symbol

E

(ESRB rating) Abbreviation of everyone.
East.

Proper noun

E

Abbreviation of Europe.
Abbreviation of Hubei.

Derived terms

E-road

Noun

E (plural Es)

(street slang) The illicit drug ecstasy (MDMA), particularly in pill form.
(especially in LGBT contexts) The hormone estrogen/estradiol. (Contrast T, testosterone.)
The grade below D in some grading systems. In most such systems, it is a failing grade.
- 1999, Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, Verso, →ISBN, page 25,
  In line with this, he is marketed not only as a mental innocent, but as a class primitive, someone who only got an E in A-level art […]
- a2003, Rick, quoted in Linda MacDowell, Redundant Masculinities?: Employment Change and White Working Class Youth, Blackwell Publishing (2003), →ISBN, page 198,
  My results weren’t that great, to be honest. I weren’t right happy with them; I got an E in Maths and that were a surprise, but I did get a B in Technology – that were all right.
- 2005, S. J. Smith, Joe Public, Virtualbookworm Publishing, →ISBN, page 125,
  Not really, but perhaps I’d have got an ‘E’ in Tech Drawing no matter how much I’d asserted myself. Maybe Mr. Pinkerton would have seen to it that my exam paper was tampered with. A spot of teacher to student revenge.
- 2005, Craig Taylor, Light, Reverb, →ISBN, page 103,
  But she didn’t get the bit about my accidental artistic career, “But you can’t draw love. You got an E in your exam. I remember that. You drew that onion that looked like a boil.”
Abbreviation of episode. (installment of a series)
The pilot episode is S01E01.

Translations

slang: ecstasy

Chinese:
Cantonese: E仔
Czech: éčko (cs) n
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French: Hebrew (fr)
Thai: ยาอี

grade below D

Chinese:
Mandarin: 戊 (zh) (wù)
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Etymology 3

English Wikipedia has an article on:

E (state)

Wikipedia

From Mandarin 鄂 (È).

Proper noun

E

(abbreviation) Hubei province, China
(history) A state in ancient China of varying location in present-day Shanxi, Henan, and Hubei.
(history) Its capital, also known as Echeng and Ezhou.
A surname from Chinese

Etymology 4

English Wikipedia has an article on:

E language

Wikipedia

From E ɛ⁵⁵.

Proper noun

E

A Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China; Kjang E.

Etymology 5

English Wikipedia has an article on:

River E

Wikipedia

Unknown.

Proper noun

E

A river in the Highlands of Scotland.

Afar

Letter

E

The fifth letter of the Afar alphabet, written in the Latin script.

American Sign Language

Letter

(Stokoe E)

The letter E

Azerbaijani

Letter

E upper case (lower case e)

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /eː/
Audio: (file)

Letter

E (capital, lowercase e)

The fifth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /e/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /e/
Audio: (file)

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

Noun

E

Abbreviation of eosto (“east”).

Estonian

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:

E

Wikipedia ^et

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called ee and written in the Latin script.

Finnish

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called ee and written in the Latin script.

Noun

E

Abbreviation of eximia cum laude approbatur.

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ə/
Audio (Paris): (file)

Adjective

E

Abbreviation of est; east

Noun

E m

Abbreviation of est; east

Letter

E

The fifth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Galician

Noun

E

leste (east)

Synonyms

(east): L

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʔeː/
Audio: (file)

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the German alphabet, written in the Latin script.

German Sign Language

Etymology

Related to the French Sign Language sign for "E".

Production

This one-handed GSL sign is produced as follows:

Posture the dominant hand in the “E” shape.

Letter

the letter E

Ido

Letter

E (lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

E

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

(name of letter) IPA^(key): /e/
Homophone: e
(phoneme) IPA^(key): /e/, /ɛ/
Homophones: e, è

Letter

E m or f (lower case e)

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

Latvian

Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:

E

Wikipedia ^lv

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɛ]

Audio:

(file)

IPA^(key): [æ]

Audio:

(file)

Letter

E

E (upper case, lower case e)

The seventh letter of the Latvian alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

The letter E/e (like its long counterpart Ē/ē) represent two sounds, [ɛ] — šaurais e (“narrow e”) — and [æ] — platais e (“broad e”). In principle, [ɛ] is used when there is a palatal element (the vowels i, ī, e, ē, the diphthongs ie, ei, and the palatal consonants j, ķ, ģ, ļ, ņ, š, ž, č, dž, and, in the old spelling, ŗ) either in the same or in the following syllable; otherwise, [æ] is used. Unfortunately, some historical changes have obscured this pattern by removing some previously existing palatal elements; as a result of that, for a number of words the actual pronunciation of the letter e — [ɛ] or [æ] — must be memorized.

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

E

Wikipedia ^ms

Pronunciation

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Letter

E

The fifth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Portuguese

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /e/, /je/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The seventh letter of the Romanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

At the beginnings of many words, this letter takes on the sound of /je/ as in este (“he/she/it is”) /ˈje.ste/. This does not happen when the preceding word ends in a consonant, as in el este (“he is”) /jelˈes.te/.

The digraph ea represents the diphthong /e̯a/ or a the monophthong /æ/, as in prea /præ/.

Saanich

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ə/

Letter

E

The ninth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /e/, /ɛ/

Letter

E (lower case e)

The tenth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Slovene

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:

E

Wikipedia ^sl

Pronunciation

Letter

E (capital, lowercase e)

The sixth letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script. Preceded by D and followed by F.

Somali

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /ɛ/, /e/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /ʔɛ/

Letter

E upper case (lower case e)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Somali alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

The twenty-fourth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by A and followed by I.

Spanish

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

E m

Abbreviation of este; east

Turkish

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧]

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The eighth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Zulu

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.