t

Letter

t (upper case T)

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

Pronunciation

• Pronunciation of IPA [tɑː, ɑttɑː] with the sound [t]:

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Symbol

t

2. (IPA) a voiceless alveolar/dental plosive.
3. (superscript ⟨ᵗ⟩, IPA) [t]-onset (prestopping / preocclusion / preplosion), [t]-release, [t]-coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [t].
5. (mathematics, physics) time
7. tonne

   Synonym: T

9. (manufacturing) thickness

   0.7 mm t

See also

• (IPA): d (“voiced alveolar plosive”)

Other representations of T:

Gallery

• Letter styles
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  Uppercase and lowercase versions of T, in normal and italic type
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  Uppercase and lowercase T in Fraktur

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Abbreviations.

t

1. (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of at
2. (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of to and homophone too.

Letter

t

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, T t, S s, E e, C c, K k, X x, I i, D d, Q q, R r, F f, G g, O o, L l, M m, N n, U u, W w, H h, Y y

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

t lower case (upper case T)

1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te/, [t̪e̞]

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Basque alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈte]

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The twentieth letter of the Catalan alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

t (upper case T)

1. A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

Pronunciation

1. IPA^(key): /tʰ/

Letter

t (upper case T)

1. A letter of the Chipewyan alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) písmeno; A a, Á á, B b, C c, Č č, D d, Ď ď, E e, É é, Ě ě, F f, G g, H h, Ch ch, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ň ň, O o, Ó ó, P p, Q q, R r, Ř ř, S s, Š š, T t, Ť ť, U u, Ú ú, Ů ů, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Ý ý, Z z, Ž ž

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eː
• (letter name): IPA^(key): /teː/

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The twentieth letter of the Danish alphabet

Noun

t

1. ton

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɛ/
  • Conventional anglicization: te

Noun

 m

1. bread

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of t  

t	t	t	t	t	t
	[chiefly Old Kingdom]		[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]
abbreviation	abbreviation in names of types of ritual loaves

References

• “tʾ (lemma ID 168810)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 209.4–211.4
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 292

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /t/; before a voiced obstruent, IPA^(key): /d/

• Audio:

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Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called to and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰ/

Letter

t (upper case T)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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 t for information on the development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

• Audio; “tee, tuttu, tarvita, tee”:

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Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The twentieth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

Noun

t

1. Abbreviation of tavu.

Pronunciation

• (letter name) IPA^(key): /te/

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The twentieth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
   • 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:

     Sa curiosité et son extravagance arrivèrent à ce point qu’il vendit plusieurs arpents de bonnes terres à labourer pour acheter des livres de chevalerie à lire.

     His curiosity and his extravagance came to the point that he sold several arpents of good working land to buy books of chivalry to read.

Contraction

t

1. (text messaging, Internet slang) Informal spelling of t’es

   t ou? ― wya?

   t pas chez toi? ― ur not home?

   t vrmt nul! ― u rly suck!

See also

• -t-
• t’

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The twentieth letter of the German alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

Romanization

t

1. Romanization of 𐍄

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰ/

Letter

t (upper case T)

1. A letter of the Heiltsuk alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): [ˈt]
• (letter name): IPA^(key): [ˈteː]

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The thirty-second letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called té and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) betű; A a, Á á, B b, C c, Cs cs, D d, Dz dz, Dzs dzs, E e, É é, F f, G g, Gy gy, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, Ly ly, M m, N n, Ny ny, O o, Ó ó, Ö ö, Ő ő, P p, R r, S s, Sz sz, T t, Ty ty, U u, Ú ú, Ü ü, Ű ű, V v, Z z, Zs zs. Only in the extended alphabet: Q q W w X x Y y. Commonly used: ch. Also defined: à ë. In surnames (selection): ä aa cz ds eé eö ew oe oó th ts ÿ.

Further reading

• t in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Letter

t (upper case T)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) bókstafur; A a, Á á, B b, D d, Рð, E e, É é, F f, G g, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ó ó, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, Ú ú, V v, X x, Y y, Ý ý, Þ þ, Æ æ, Ö ö

Pronunciation

• (context pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t/
• (letter name) IPA^(key): /te/

Letter

t (upper case T)

1. The twentieth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Clipping of ti (“the”), homophonous to ti.

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Letter

t f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case T)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called ti and written in the Latin script.

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog t. Letter pronunciation is influenced by English t.

Pronunciation

• (letter name) IPA^(key): /ti/ [ti̞]
  • Rhymes: -i
• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /t/ [t̚]

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Kankanaey alphabet, called ti and written in the Latin script.

References

• Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (2016) Ortograpiya di Kankanaëy [Kankanaey Orthography]‎ (in Kankanaey and Tagalog), →ISBN, pages 10-11

Etymology

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and t for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰ/

Letter

t (upper case T)

1. A letter of the Kiowa alphabet.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, Ai ai, Au au, Aui aui, B̶ b̶, B b, D̶ d̶, D d, E e, G̶ g̶, G g, H h, I i, K k, Kʼ kʼ, L l, M m, N n, n̶, O o, Oi oi, P p, Pʼ pʼ, S s, T t, Tʼ tʼ, Ts ts, Tsʼ tsʼ, U u, Ui ui, W w, Y y, Z z, ꞉

Letter

t

1. A letter of the Latin alphabet.

References

• "t", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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): [t]

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Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called tē and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /t̪/

Letter

t (upper case T)

1. The thirty-third letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) kēratēd̦; A a, Ā ā, Ä ä, Ǟ ǟ, B b, D d, D̦ d̦, E e, Ē ē, F f, G g, H h, I i, Ī ī, J j, K k, L l, Ļ ļ, M m, N n, Ņ ņ, O o, Ō ō, Ȯ ȯ, Ȱ ȱ, Õ õ, Ȭ ȭ, P p, R r, Ŗ ŗ, S s, Š š, T t, Ț ț, U u, Ū ū, V v, Z z, Ž ž

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The twentieth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t/
• IPA^(key): /d/ (by assimilation to a following voiced obstruent)

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) ittra; A a, B b, Ċ ċ, D d, E e, F f, Ġ ġ, G g, Għ għ, H h, Ħ ħ, I i, Ie ie, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Ż ż, Z z

Letter

t (upper case T)

1. A letter of the Navajo alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʰ~t] (generally)
• IPA^(key): [d̥] (Sylt, when intervocalic in an unstressed syllable, merges with ⟨d⟩)

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. A letter of the North Frisian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (North Frisian letters): a, ä, å, ā, b, c, d, đ, e, ē, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, ö, p, r, s, t, u, ü, v, w (q, x, y, z)

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

References

• “t” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Etymology

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and t for development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ/

Letter

t (upper case T, lower case)

1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Polish alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The twentieth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. (International Standard) The twenty-sixth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
2. (Pan-Vlax) The twenty-seventh letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t/

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called te or tî and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ət/
• Hyphenation: t

Article

t

1. Unstressed form of dät

References

• Pyt Kramer (1996) Kute Seelter Sproakleere‎, Mildam, page 10

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ʰ/

Letter

t (lower case, upper case T)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet, written in the Latin script. It is preceded by s and followed by u. Its traditional name is teine (“gorse”).