Z
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Translingual
See also
Symbol
Z
- (metrology) Symbol for the prefix zetta-
- (physics) the impedance of an electrical circuit
- (physics) the depth dimension in a 3D environment
- (physics) atomic number
- (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for either aspargine or aspartic acid
Derived terms
Gallery
- Capital and lowercase versions of Z, in normal and italic type
- Uppercase and lowercase Z in Fraktur
See also
Other representations of Z:
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, Canada, General New Zealand, General Australian) IPA(key): /zɛd/
- (US) IPA(key): /zi/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛd, -iː
Letter
See also
American Sign Language
Azerbaijani
Letter
Z upper case (lower case z)
Dutch
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /zɛt/
Audio (file)
Esperanto
Letter
Z (upper case, lower case z)
Finnish
Letter
Z (upper case, lower case z)
Usage notes
- Used only in loanwords. In more established loanwords replaced with ts.
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tsɛt/
Audio (file)
Usage notes
- In German handwriting, the letter Z very often receives an additional stroke in the middle: Ƶ. A lack of this stroke may even make the letter look "incomplete" to a great deal of language users. However, the corresponding grapheme Ƶ is virtually never used in printing.
German Sign Language
Etymology
Related to the French Sign Language sign for "Z".
Production
This one-handed GSL sign is produced as follows:
- Posture the dominant hand in the “Z” shape, which is very similar to the “D” shape, and then move it in a "z"-shaped zig-zag as indicated in the picture below.
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /z/
Italian
Pronunciation
- (name of letter) IPA(key): /ˈdzɛta/
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /ts/, /dz/
Letter
Z m or f (invariable, lower case z)
Latin
Etymology
The letter descended from the Old Italic letter 𐌆 (z) in the Old Latin period, but had long fell into native disuse by the Classical period, when it came back into use, transcribing the Ancient Greek letter Ζ (Z, “zeta”), which had formerly been transcribed S in initial position and SS in medial position. In writings of the Late Latin period, Z frequently takes the place of S and in the third and fourth centuries often represented word-inital prevocalic di.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /z/, [z̪]
Letter
Z (upper case, lower case z)
- The twenty-third letter of the Classical Latin alphabet, called zēta.
References
- Z, z in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Z in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,700/1
- “Z, z” on page 2,125/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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): [z]
Portuguese
Letter
Z (upper case, lower case z)
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ze/, /zet/
Letter
Z (capital, lowercase z)
- The twenty-eighth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /z/. Preceded by X.
Saanich
Slovene
Spanish
Turkish
Letter
Z (upper case, lower case z)
Zulu
Letter
Z (upper case, lower case z)