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E

See also: ㅌ and Appendix:Variations of "e"
LetterE.svg
E U+0045, E
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
← D
[U+0044] 		Basic Latin F →
[U+0046]
Ｅ U+FF25, Ｅ
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
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[U+FF24] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Ｆ →
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TranslingualEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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.

LetterEdit

E (lower case e)

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

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SymbolEdit

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.
  4. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for glutamic acid
  5. (mathematics) expectation function
  6. Abbreviation of exa-.

SynonymsEdit

  • (scientific notation): e

GalleryEdit

  • Letter styles

  • Capital and lowercase versions of E, in normal and italic type

  • Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur

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Other representations of E:

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

Etymology 1Edit

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:

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

LetterEdit

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.

NumberEdit

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.

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Etymology 2Edit

Abbreviation.

SymbolEdit

E

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

Proper nounEdit

E

  1. Abbreviation of Europe.
Derived termsEdit

NounEdit

E (plural Es)

  1. (slang) The illicit drug ecstasy (MDMA), particularly in pill form.
    • 1995, Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), “Sorted For E’s and Wizz”, in 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
  2. (especially in LGBT contexts) The hormone estrogen/estradiol. (Contrast T, testosterone.)
  3. 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.”
  4. Abbreviation of episode. (installment of a series)
    The pilot episode is S01E01.
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Etymology 3Edit

 
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From Mandarin 鄂 (È).

Proper nounEdit

E

  1. (abbreviation) Hubei province, China
  2. (historical) A state in ancient China of varying location in present-day Shanxi, Henan, and Hubei.
  3. (historical) Its capital, also known as Echeng and Ezhou.
  4. A surname​.

Etymology 4Edit

 
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From E ɛ⁵⁵.

Proper nounEdit

E

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

 
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Unknown.

Proper nounEdit

E

  1. A river in the Highlands of Scotland.

AfarEdit

LetterEdit

E

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

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AzerbaijaniEdit

LetterEdit

E upper case (lower case e)

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

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BasqueEdit

PronunciationEdit

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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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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

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E (capital, lowercase e)

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

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EsperantoEdit

PronunciationEdit

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E (upper case, lower case e)

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

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NounEdit

E

  1. Abbreviation of eosto (“east”).

EstonianEdit

 
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LetterEdit

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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FinnishEdit

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E (upper case, lower case e)

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

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NounEdit

E

  1. Abbreviation of eximia cum laude approbatur.

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

E

  1. Abbreviation of est; east

NounEdit

E m

  1. Abbreviation of est; east

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E

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

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GalicianEdit

NounEdit

E

  1. leste (east)

SynonymsEdit

  • (east): L

GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

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E (upper case, lower case e)

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

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HungarianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): [ ˈɛ]
  • (letter name): IPA(key): [ ˈɛ]

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E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The ninth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

DeclensionEdit

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative E E-k
accusative E-t E-ket
dative E-nek E-knek
instrumental E-vel E-kkel
causal-final E-ért E-kért
translative E-vé E-kké
terminative E-ig E-kig
essive-formal E-ként E-kként
essive-modal — —
inessive E-ben E-kben
superessive E-n E-ken
adessive E-nél E-knél
illative E-be E-kbe
sublative E-re E-kre
allative E-hez E-khez
elative E-ből E-kből
delative E-ről E-kről
ablative E-től E-ktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		E-é E-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		E-éi E-kéi
Possessive forms of E
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. E-m E-im
2nd person sing. E-d E-id
3rd person sing. E-je E-i
1st person plural E-nk E-ink
2nd person plural E-tek E-itek
3rd person plural E-jük E-ik

Derived termsEdit

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IdoEdit

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E (lower case e)

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

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ItalianEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

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E m or f (lower case e)

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

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LatvianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

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E

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The seventh letter of the Latvian alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Usage notesEdit

The letter E/e (like its long counterpart Ē/ē) represent two sounds, [ɛ] — šaurais e (“narrow e”) — and [æ] — platais e (“broad e”). In principle, [ɛ] is used when there is a palatal element (the vowels i, ī, e, ē, the diphthongs ie, ei, and the palatal consonants j, ķ, ģ, ļ, ņ, š, ž, č, dž, and, in the old spelling, ŗ) either in the same or in the following syllable; otherwise, [æ] is used. Unfortunately, some historical changes have obscured this pattern by removing some previously existing palatal elements; as a result of that, for a number of words the actual pronunciation of the letter e — [ɛ] or [æ] — must be memorized.

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MalayEdit

 
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E

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

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PortugueseEdit

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E (upper case, lower case e)

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

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RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

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E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The seventh letter of the Romanian alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Usage notesEdit

At the beginnings of many words, this letter takes on the sound of /je/ as in este (/ˈje.ste/). This does not happen when the preceding word ends in a consonant, as in el este (/jelˈes.te/).

The digraph ea represents the diphthong /e̯a/ or the monophthong /æ/, as in prea (/præ/).

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SaanichEdit

PronunciationEdit

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E

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

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Skolt SamiEdit

PronunciationEdit

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E (lower case e)

  1. The tenth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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SloveneEdit

 
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E (capital, lowercase e)

  1. The sixth letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script. Preceded by D and followed by F.

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SomaliEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɛ/, /e/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ʔɛ/

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E upper case (lower case e)

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

Usage notesEdit

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by A and followed by I.

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SpanishEdit

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E (upper case, lower case e)

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

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NounEdit

E m

  1. Abbreviation of este; east

TurkishEdit

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E (upper case, lower case e)

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

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VietnameseEdit

PronunciationEdit

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E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The eighth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

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WelshEdit

PronunciationEdit

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E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The seventh letter of the Welsh alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by Dd and followed by F.

MutationEdit

  • E cannot be mutated but, being a vowel, does take h-prothesis, for example with the word eliffant (“elephant”):
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
eliffant unchanged unchanged heliffant
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Further readingEdit

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “E”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

ZuluEdit

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E (upper case, lower case e)

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

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