Wiktionary

Z

See also: z [U+007A LATIN SMALL LETTER Z], ʒ [U+0292 LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH], Ζ [U+0396 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ZETA], ℤ [U+2124 DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL Z], 乙 [U+4E59 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E59], ㆸ [U+31B8 BOPOMOFO LETTER GH], and Appendix:Variations of "z"
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LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z
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FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z
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TranslingualEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From the Etruscan letter 𐌆 (z, “ze”), from the Ancient Greek letter Ζ (Z, “zeta”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤆‎ (z, “zayin”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓏭.

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Z (lower case z)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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Z

  1. (metrology) zetta-
  2. (physics) the impedance of an electrical circuit
  3. (physics, computer graphics) the depth dimension in a 3D environment
  4. (physics) atomic number
  5. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for either aspargine or aspartic acid

Derived termsEdit

Base SI units derived from the prefix meaning zetta-
Derived SI units derived from the prefix meaning zetta-

GalleryEdit

  • Letter styles

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

  • Uppercase and lowercase Z in Fraktur

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Other representations of Z:

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

Z (upper case, lower case z, plural Zs or Z's)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the English alphabet, called zed or zee and written in the Latin script.

Derived termsEdit

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NounEdit

Z (plural Z's or Zs)

  1. (slang) Z-drug.
    • 2013, Snap Capone (lyrics and music), “Lights Out”, in The Memoir‎[1], from 0:16:
      I can sell bricks, I don't need to rap
      Buj so peng it makes the fiends collapse
      Cook that coca into crack
      I was selling Z’s while you was in your bed

AfrikaansEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /zɛt/

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Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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AlbanianEdit

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Z (lower case z)

  1. The thirty-fifth letter of the Albanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. The thirty-seventh letter of the Albanian alphabet, called Arbëreshë, Arvanitic, or Arvanitika and written in the Latin script. Z, z
  3. The 10th letter of the Albanian alphabet, called Arvanitic or Arvanitika and written in the Greek script. Ζ, ζ

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AzerbaijaniEdit

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Z upper case (lower case z)

  1. The thirty-second letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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BasqueEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /s̻eta/, [s̻e̞.t̪a]

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Z (upper case, lower case z)

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

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ChineseEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Derived from 直 (zhí, “straight”).

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Z

  1. (Mainland China) A shorthand used to refer to direct express trains.

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

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Z (capital, lowercase z)

  1. The twenty-sixth and last letter of the Dutch alphabet.

AdverbEdit

Z

  1. Abbreviation of zuid; south

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  • Previous letter: Y

EsperantoEdit

PronunciationEdit

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Z (upper case, lower case z)

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

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EstonianEdit

 
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Z (upper case, lower case z)

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

Usage notesEdit

  • Used only in loanwords.

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FinnishEdit

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Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called tseta or tset and written in the Latin script.

Usage notesEdit

  • Used only in loanwords. In more established loanwords replaced with ts.

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GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

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Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-sixth and last letter of the German alphabet.

Usage notesEdit

  • In German handwriting, the letter Z very often receives an additional stroke in the middle: Ƶ. A lack of this stroke may even make the letter look "incomplete" to a great deal of language users. However, the corresponding grapheme Ƶ is virtually never used in printing.

HungarianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): [ˈz]
  • (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈzeː]

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Z (upper case, lower case z)

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

DeclensionEdit

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

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IdoEdit

PronunciationEdit

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Z (lower case z)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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ItalianEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

  • (letter name) IPA(key): */ˈd͡zɛ.ta/, */ˈd͡ze.ta/[1]
  • (phonemic realization) IPA(key): */t͡s/*, */d͡z/*
    • Z is spelt single stem-initially and after consonants. The pronunciation is not predictable and may be /t͡s/ or /d͡z/, though after -l- and -r- it is mostly /t͡s/. It is also spelt single post-vocalically before [j], where the pronunciation is mostly /tt͡s/.
    • Between true vowels it is usually doubled as zz. The pronunciation, again, is not predictable and may be /tt͡s/ or /dd͡z/. Chiefly in learned words it may be spelt single, in which case it is predominantly /dd͡z/.

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Z f or m (invariable, upper case, lower case z)

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

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Z

  1. the letter zeta in the Greek alphabet

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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Z in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

The letter descended from the Old Italic letter 𐌆 (z) in the Old Latin period, but had long fell into native disuse by the Classical period, when it came back into use, transcribing the Ancient Greek letter Ζ (Z, “zeta”), which had formerly been transcribed S in initial position and SS in medial position. In writings of the Late Latin period, Z frequently takes the place of S and in the third and fourth centuries often represented word-initial prevocalic di.

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Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Classical Latin alphabet, called zēta.

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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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Z

Z (upper case, lower case z)

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

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MalayEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): [zɛt̚], [zɛk̚], [zi]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA(key): [z]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA(key): [s]

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Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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NupeEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

Z (upper case, lower case z)

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

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PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Polish alphabet, called zet and written in the Latin script.

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Further readingEdit

  • Z in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • Z in Polish dictionaries at PWN

PortugueseEdit

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Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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RomaniEdit

PronunciationEdit

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Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. (International Standard) The thirtieth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. (Pan-Vlax) The thirty-first letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

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Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The thirty-first letter of the Romanian alphabet, called ze, zet, zed, or zî and written in the Latin script.

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RussianEdit

 
The Z symbol used by the Russian military.
 
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EtymologyEdit

Derived from запад (zapad, “west”). The Z sign was initially used for vehicles targeted towards southeastern Ukraine, and later popularised by the Russian government on social media as a rallying symbol.

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Z (lower case z)

  1. the Roman letter Z, z
    Synonym: зет (zɛt)
  2. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (politics) a dogwhistle for supporting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    Synonyms: (derogatory) полусва́стика (polusvástika), (derogatory) но́вая сва́стика (nóvaja svástika)
    • #Zамир, #Zапобеду (hashtags using Z by Russian nationalists in support for war against Ukraine)
      #Zamir, #Zapobedu
      "for peace", "for victory"
    • Zалупа, роZZия, zвери, Zло, Zомби (derisive online slang terms mocking Russian nationalists)
      Zalupa, roZZija, zveri, Zlo, Zombi
      "dickhead", "RuZZia", "beaZts", "evil", "Zombie"

Usage notesEdit

Russian nationalists replace instances of the Cyrillic letter З (Z) with Z in some words and usernames, and their opponents also use Latin Z's in Russian words to mock them.

Related termsEdit

  • зиговать (zigovatʹ, “to use a Nazi salute”), zиговать (zigovatʹ, “to support the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine”)
  • zомби (zombi, “a zombie, a fanatical Russian nationalist who supports the invasion of Ukraine”)

DescendantsEdit

  • ⇒ English: zwastika (internet slang, usage of Z by Russian nationalists)

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Further readingEdit

SaanichEdit

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Z

  1. The thirty-eighth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Skolt SamiEdit

PronunciationEdit

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Z (lower case z)

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

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SloveneEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

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Z (capital, lowercase z)

  1. The 24th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by V and followed by Ž.

SpanishEdit

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Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. the 27th letter of the Spanish alphabet

TurkishEdit

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Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ze and written in the Latin script.

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ZuluEdit

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Z (upper case, lower case z)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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