E
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Etymology
From Latin E, from Ancient Greek Ε (E, “Epsilon”).
See also
Symbol
E
- Representing × 10x in floating-point notation.
- 2E5 = 2 × 105
- (computing) Hexadecimal symbol for 14.
- (physics) Energy.
- (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for glutamic acid
- (mathematics) expectation function
Gallery
- Capital and lowercase versions of E, in normal and italic type
- Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur
See also
Other representations of E:
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 Middle English and 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:
Old English letter E, from replacement by Latin letter E of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛖ (e). Old English letter Æ from replacement by Latin ligature Æ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚫ (æ). Old English digraph EA, from replacement by Latin digraph EA of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛠ (ea). Old English digraph EO from replacement by Latin digraph EO of Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛇ (ēo). Old English letter Œ from replacement by Latin ligature Œ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛟ (œ).
Letter
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.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- 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.
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Number
E (upper case, lower case e)
See also
Etymology 2
Abbreviation.
Derived terms
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.”
- 1999, Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, Verso, →ISBN, page 25,
- Abbreviation of episode. (installment of a series)
- The pilot episode is S01E01.
Translations
Proper noun
E
Etymology 4
From E [Term?] (/e˥/).
Proper noun
E
- A Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China; Kjang E.
See also
- Wiktionary's coverage of E terms
- Appendix:E Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in E
Etymology 5
Unknown.
Afar
American Sign Language
Azerbaijani
Letter
E upper case (lower case e)
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /e/
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /e/
Audio (file)
Letter
E (upper case, lower case e)
See also
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ə/
Audio (Paris) (file)
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.
Ido
Latvian
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]
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- IPA(key): [æ]
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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
Pronunciation
- (Name of letter) IPA(key): [i]
- (Phoneme 1) IPA(key): [e], [ɛ]
- (Phoneme 2) IPA(key): [ə]
Portuguese
Letter
E (upper case, lower case e)
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e/, /je/
Letter
E (upper case, lower case e)
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/
Skolt Sami
Pronunciation
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /e/, /ɛ/
Slovene
Letter
E (capital, lowercase e)
Turkish
Letter
E (upper case, lower case e)
Vietnamese
Letter
E (upper case, lower case e)
See also
- (Quốc ngữ letters) chữ; A a (À à, Ả ả, Ã ã, Á á, Ạ ạ), Ă ă (Ằ ằ, Ẳ ẳ, Ẵ ẵ, Ắ ắ, Ặ ặ), Â â (Ầ ầ, Ẩ ẩ, Ẫ ẫ, Ấ ấ, Ậ ậ), B b, C c (Ch ch), D d, Đ đ, E e (È è, Ẻ ẻ, Ẽ ẽ, É é, Ẹ ẹ), Ê ê (Ề ề, Ể ể, Ễ ễ, Ế ế, Ệ ệ), G g (Gh gh, Gi gi), H h, I i (Ì ì, Ỉ ỉ, Ĩ ĩ, Í í, Ị ị), K k (Kh kh), L l, M m, N n (Ng ng, Ngh ngh, Nh nh), O o (Ò ò, Ỏ ỏ, Õ õ, Ó ó, Ọ ọ), Ô ô (Ồ ồ, Ổ ổ, Ỗ ỗ, Ố ố, Ộ ộ), Ơ ơ (Ờ ờ, Ở ở, Ỡ ỡ, Ớ ớ, Ợ ợ), P p (Ph ph), Q q (Qu qu), R r, S s, T t (Th th, Tr tr), U u (Ù ù, Ủ ủ, Ũ ũ, Ú ú, Ụ ụ), Ư ư (Ừ ừ, Ử ử, Ữ ữ, Ứ ứ, Ự ự), V v, X x, Y y (Ỳ ỳ, Ỷ ỷ, Ỹ ỹ, Ý ý, Ỵ ỵ)
Zulu
Letter
E (upper case, lower case e)