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See also: 𰀄, 𰀂, ㅌ, and Appendix:Variations of "e"

E U+0045, E
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
← D
[U+0044] 		Basic Latin F →
[U+0046]
Character variations
Ｅ U+FF25, Ｅ
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
← Ｄ
[U+FF24] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Ｆ →
[U+FF26]
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Translingual

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Etymology

From the Etruscan letter 𐌄 (e, “e”), from the Ancient Greek letter Ε (E, “epsilon”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤄 (h, “he”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓀠.

Letter

E (lower case e)

  1. The fifth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

Symbol

E

  1. (sciences, computing) Symbol separating mantissa from the exponent in scientific notation.
    2E5 = 2 × 105
  2. (computing) Hexadecimal symbol for 14.
  3. (physics) Energy.
    E=mc2
  4. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for glutamic acid
  5. (mathematics) expectation function
  6. Abbreviation of exa-.
  7. (linguistics) A wildcard for a front vowel
    synonyms: I
  8. (clothing) Bra cup size.

Synonyms

  • (scientific notation): e
  • Letter styles
  • Thumb
    Uppercase and lowercase versions of E, in normal and italic type
  • Thumb
    Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur

See also

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English

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme, usually): IPA(key): /ɛ/, /iː/, or silent
  • Audio (UK):(file)
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /iː/
  • Rhymes: -iː

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:

  • Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛖ (e) Old English letter E, from replacement by Latin letter E of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛖ (e).
  • Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚫ (æ) Old English letter Æ from replacement by Latin ligature Æ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚫ (æ).
  • Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛠ (ea) Old English digraph EA, from replacement by Latin digraph EA of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛠ (ea).
  • Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛇ (ēo) Old English digraph EO from replacement by Latin digraph EO of Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛇ (eo).
  • Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛟ (œ) 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)

  1. The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
    • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
      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.

Number

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The ordinal number fifth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

See also

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Symbol

E

  1. (ESRB rating) Abbreviation of everyone.
  2. East.
Translations

Noun

E (plural Es)

  1. (slang) The drug ecstasy (MDMA), particularly in pill form.
    • 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 156:
      Sick Boy brings oot some E. White doves; ah think. It's mental gear. Most Ecstasy hasnae any MDMA in it, it's just likesay, ken, part speed, part acid in its effects . . .
    • 1995, “Sorted For E’s and Wizz”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), Different Class, performed by Pulp:
      And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is / But that's okay cause we're all sorted out for E's and wizz
    • 2002, Hugh Mackay, Winter Close, Sydney: Hodder Headline, →ISBN, page 85:
      You mentioned you were taking stuff. Did you mean ecstasy? / What else? It’s excellent. I’m not an addict or nothing, and I steer clear of crack and that. People say E is for losers but, hey, I’d never be without some eccy in my bag.
  3. (chiefly LGBTQ) Abbreviation of estrogen or estradiol.
    Coordinate term: T (“testosterone”)
  4. 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.”
  6. Abbreviation of episode. (installment of a series)
    The pilot episode is S01E01.
Translations

Proper noun

E

  1. (religion) Abbreviation of Elohist.

Etymology 3

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄂 (È).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Proper noun

E

  1. (history) A state in ancient China of varying location in present-day Shanxi, Henan, and Hubei.
    • 2002, The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 229:
      The discovery suggests also that the center of the state of E was located in the Suizao corridor in Hubei, not far from the location of E as suggested by ancient geographical works.
    • 2006, Li Feng, Landscape and Power in Early China‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 330–331:
      These three bronzes, though clearly modeled on Zhou types, are quite distinctive from the Zhou tradition. They suggest that, although the state of E served as an ally and agent of the Western Zhou state, it probably had a distinctive cultural origin of its own.
    • 2014, Liu Yang, Cast for Eternity‎, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 15:
      A six-character inscription cast inside the bowl records that this gui was made for a nobleman of the E state. Due to gaps in Chinese historical records, the exact history of the state of E is uncertain. Since the E Shu Gui was salvaged from a pile of scrap copper shipped to the Shanghai Foundry from Hubei province, some scholars have inferred that the gui was excavated from Hubei, therefore proving that the E state during the Western Zhou was located in today's Hubei province.
  2. (history) Its capital, also known as Echeng and Ezhou.
  3. A surname from Mandarin Chinese.
Translations

Etymology 4

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 誒 / 诶 (ê̄), from E ɛ⁵⁵.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

E

  1. A Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China; Kjang E.
Translations
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Etymology 5

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Unknown.

Proper noun

E

  1. A river in Highland council area, Scotland.
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Afar

Letter

E

  1. The fifth letter of the Afar alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɪə/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The fifth letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Noun

E (plural E's, diminutive E'tjie)

  1. E

Albanian

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ɛ/, /e/

Letter

E (upper case E, lower case e)

  1. The 7th letter of the Standard Albanian Latin-script alphabet.

See also

Angami

Letter

E

  1. The ninth letter of the Angami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Azerbaijani

Letter

E upper case (lower case e)

  1. The sixth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Basque

Pronunciation

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The fifth letter of the Basque alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The fifth letter of the Catalan alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

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Central Franconian

Etymology

  • /ɛ/ is from Middle High German e (both ë and ẹ) in most closed syllables, in some dialects also in open syllables; in Moselle Franconian from ö in the same positions.
  • /e/ is from i in most closed syllables; in Moselle Franconian from ü in the same positions.
  • /eː/ is from ei in Ripuarian and western Moselle Franconian (latter also öu); from ie in Ripuarian and northern Moselle Franconian (latter also üe); from ē, œ in southern Moselle Franconian; in some Moselle Franconian dialects from e, ö in open syllables.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (short open) /ɛ/, (short closed) /e/, (long) /eː/, (reduced) /ə/

Letter

E

  1. A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
  2. A letter in the Dutch-based alphabet of Central Franconian.

Usage notes

  • In the German-based spelling, short open /ɛ/ may also be represented by Ä (see there).
  • In the Dutch-based spelling, short closed /e/, which ranges phonetically between [e] and [ɪ], is represented by I (see there).
Doubling of long E
  • In the German-based spelling, long e is doubled to ee when the German cognate word has ee as well. Long e may or may not be doubled in the following cases:
    • at the end of a word or word stem: hee or he;
    • when it is followed by two or more consonants: Leech or rarely Lech;
    • when the German cognate has two vowel letters: Steen or Sten (German Stein);
    • when the German cognate has a consonant lost or not present in Central Franconian: weed or wed (German wird);
    • when the German cognate has a short vowel: Keet or Ket (German Kette).
  • In the Dutch-based spelling, long e is always doubled in closed syllables and at the end of a word, always written simple in non-final open syllables.

Central Mazahua

Pronunciation

Letter

E (lower case e)

  1. A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

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Chinese

Etymology 1

Romanisation of 𪘲 / 𬺌 (ji1).

Pronunciation

Verb

E

  1. (Cantonese, nonstandard) Alternative form of 𪘲 / 𬺌 (ji1).

Etymology 2

Romanisation of 依 (ji1).

Pronunciation

Pronoun

E

  1. (Cantonese, nonstandard) Alternative form of 依 (ji1, “this; these”).
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Pronunciation 1

Letter

E

  1. The fifth letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2

Letter

E

  1. The fifth letter used in Pinyin.
Usage notes
  • The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Czech

Letter

E

  1. The eighth letter of the Czech alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Letter

E (capital, lowercase e)

  1. The fifth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Elfdalian

Alternative forms

  • ᛆ (Dalecarlian runes)

Letter

E (upper case E, lower case e)

  1. The seventh letter of the Elfdalian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The sixth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

See also

Noun

E

  1. Abbreviation of eosto (“east”).

Estonian

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia et

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The fifth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called ee and written in the Latin script.

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Finnish

Etymology

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and E for information on the development of the glyph itself.

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The fifth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called ee and written in the Latin script.

See also

Noun

E

  1. Abbreviation of eximia cum laude approbatur.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of e (“E (musical note)”)

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

E

  1. Abbreviation of est; east

Noun

E m

  1. Abbreviation of est; east

Letter

E

  1. The fifth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Galician

Noun

E

  1. leste (east)

Synonyms

  • (east): L

German

Pronunciation

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The fifth letter of the German alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Hawaiian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Letter

E

  1. The second letter of the Hawaiian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Hungarian

Icelandic

Ido

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Kankanaey

Kashubian

Latin

Latvian

Luxembourgish

Malay

Navajo

Norwegian Bokmål

Nupe

Polish

Portuguese

Romani

Romanian

Saanich

Scottish Gaelic

Silesian

Skolt Sami

Slovene

Somali

Spanish

Swedish

Tagalog

Turkish

Vietnamese

Welsh

Yoruba

Zulu

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