e-
English
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of electronic.
Usage notes
This practice began with e-mail perhaps as far back as 1971. Many terms beginning with e- can be seen in both hyphenated (e.g. e-card) and unhyphenated (e.g., ecard) form, and sometimes — particularly in a business context — the letter following the e- will be capitalized (e.g., eBusiness or e-Business). In the present day, e- is generally used to indicate association with or transmission over the Internet. In proper names beginning with e-, the convention is generally to leave the e- lower-case, and to capitalize the second letter of the name (e.g., eBay). The e remains then lower-case when the name is used at the beginning of a sentence.
Coordinate terms
- (electronic): i- (internet)
See also
- Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year
Etymology 3
Abbreviation of emergency.
Etymology 4
Abbreviation of electric.
Prefix
e-
- (marketing) Used to prefix product names, to indicate an electrified or all-electric variant of the product, particularly cars.
Derived terms
References
- “e-, prefix2”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, January 2018; “e-” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.
Chuukese
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /eː/
Prefix
ē-
- Alternative form of ex- (combining with b-, d-, g-, j-, l-, m-, n-, r-, and v-initial words).
Derived terms
Portuguese
Southern Ndebele
Prefix
e-
- Class 4 relative concord.
Prefix
e-
- Class 9 relative concord.
Prefix
e-
- Class 9 adjective concord.
Swedish
Prefix
e-
- electronic; including the hyphen
- prefix that may be used on certain pronouns and adverbs to create "-ever" constructions, all of which are considered archaic or heavily archaic.
Derived terms
Xhosa
Prefix
e-
- Class 4 relative concord.
Prefix
e-
- Class 9 relative concord.
Usage notes
This prefix is used with nouns of all classes except 1(a) and 2(a). Usually, it occurs in the form of the circumfix e- -ini, but certain nouns have only the prefix. When affixed to a class 11 noun in u-, it changes to elu-. Also when affixed to a class 10 noun in iin-, iim-, ii-, it also changes to ezin-, ezim-, ezi-.
Zulu
Prefix
e-
- Class 4 relative concord.
Prefix
e-
- Class 9 relative concord.
Usage notes
This prefix is used with nouns of all classes except 1(a) and 2(a). Usually, it occurs in the form of the circumfix e- -ini, but certain nouns have only the prefix. When affixed to a class 5 noun beginning in ī-, it is lengthened to ē-, and when affixed to a class 11 noun in ū-, it is lengthened and also changes to ō-.
References
- C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “e-”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ISBN 0 85494 027 8: “e-”