ef
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
ef (plural efs)
- The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.
See also[edit]
- (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee/zed (Category: en:Latin letter names)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
name of the letter F, f
Anagrams[edit]
Esperanto[edit]
Noun[edit]
ef (plural ef-oj, accusative singular ef-on, accusative plural ef-ojn)
- The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.
See also[edit]
- (Latin script letter names) litero; a, bo/be, co/ce, ĉo/ĉa, do/de, e, fo/ef, go/ge, ĝo/ĝe, ho/ha, ĥo/ĥi, i, jo/je, ĵo/ĵi, ko/ka, lo/el, mo/om, no/en, o, po/pa, ro/ar, so/es, ŝo/eŝ, to/ta, u, ŭo/eŭ, vo/vi, zo/ze (Category: eo:Latin letter names)
Hungarian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ef
- The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.
Icelandic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse ef, from Proto-Germanic *jabai.
Pronunciation[edit]
Conjunction[edit]
ef
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ef (indeclinable)
- The name of the letter F.
Usage notes[edit]
- Multiple Latin names for the letter F, f have been suggested. The most common is ef or a syllabic f, although there is some evidence which also supports, as names for the letter, fē, əf, fə, and even (in the fourth- or fifth-century first Antinoë papyrus, which gives Greek transliterations of the Latin names of the Roman alphabet’s letters) ιφφε (iphphe).
Coordinate terms[edit]
- (Latin’s names for the letters of its own alphabet): ā (A), bē (B), cē (C), dē (D), ē (E), ef (F), gē (G), hā (H), ī (I), kā (K), el (L), em (M), en (N), ō (O), pē (P), kū (Q), er (R), es (S), tē (T), ū (V), ix / īx / ex (X), ȳ (Y), zēta (Z)
References[edit]
- Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), especially pages 30–31, 42–44, and 63
Latvian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ef m (invariable)
- The Latvian name of the Latin script letter F/f.
See also[edit]
- Latvian letter names:
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin apem, accusative singular of apis.
Noun[edit]
ef m (oblique plural és, nominative singular és, nominative plural ef)
References[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881)
Old Saxon[edit]
Conjunction[edit]
ef
Welsh[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *éy.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
ef
Usage notes[edit]
Ef is primarily a feature of Literary Welsh. Colloquial Welsh uses e or o instead.
Categories:
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Latin letter names
- Esperanto nouns
- eo:Latin letter names
- Hungarian nouns
- hu:Latin letter names
- Icelandic terms derived from Old Norse
- Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Icelandic conjunctions
- Latin nouns
- la:Letter names of the Roman alphabet
- Latvian nouns
- Latvian masculine nouns
- Latvian indeclinable nouns
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
- Old Saxon conjunctions
- Welsh terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Welsh personal pronouns
