duobla vo
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /duˈobla ˈvo/
- Hyphenation: du‧ob‧la‧vo
Noun
duobla vo (accusative singular duoblan vo-on, plural duoblaj vo-oj, accusative plural duoblajn vo-ojn)
- (sometimes proscribed) The name of the Latin-script letter W.[1]
- 1991, Sergio Pokrovskij (tr.), “La incidento en Gribojedovo”, in La majstro kaj Margarita, translation of Мастер и Маргарита by M. A. Bulgakov:
- Nur la unuan literon mi memoras, per duobla vo komenciĝas la familinomo!
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Usage notes
Proscribed by some lexicons on the grounds that duobla vo literally means "vv".
Synonyms
References
- 1987 [1970], Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto, 3 edition, Paris, →ISBN, keyword v, pages 1163:
- duobla, ĝermana ~o. Nomo de neesperanta, latinalfabeta litero, kun la formo W, w, k la prononco ion simila al ŭ […]
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