E

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

E - Translingual

Letter

E (lower case e)

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

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
  • Uppercase and lowercase versions of E, in normal and italic type
  • Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur

E - English

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme, usually): IPA: /ɛ/, /iː/, or silent
  • (letter name): IPA: /iː/
  • (Chinese state): IPA: /ʌ/

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.

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.

Symbol

E

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

Translations

  • Swedish: Ö (sv)

Noun

E (plural Es)

  1. (slang) The drug ecstasy (MDMA), particularly in pill form.
  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.
  4. Abbreviation of episode. (installment of a series)
    • The pilot episode is S01E01.

Translations

  • Chinese:
    • Cantonese: E仔 (ji1 zai2)
  • Czech: éčko (cs) n
  • French: Hebrew (fr)
  • Thai: ยาอี (th)
  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin:  (zh) ()
  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin:  (zh) ()
  • Swedish: E (sv)
  • Swedish: A (sv)

Proper noun

E

  1. (religion) Abbreviation of Elohist.

Alternative forms

Proper noun

E

  1. (history) A state in ancient China of varying location in present-day Shanxi, Henan, and Hubei.
  2. (history) Its capital, also known as Echeng and Ezhou.
  3. A surname from Chinese.

Translations

  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin:  (zh) (È)
  • Japanese:  (ja) (gaku)
  • Kurdish:
    • Central Kurdish: ئێ (ckb) (ê)
  • Vietnamese: ngạc (vi)

Proper noun

E

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

Proper noun

E

  1. A river in Highland council area, Scotland.

E - Afar

Letter

E

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

E - Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /ɪə/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

Noun

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

  1. E

E - Angami

Letter

E

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

E - Azerbaijani

Letter

E upper case (lower case e)

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

E - Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /e/, [e̞]

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E - Central Franconian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: (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).
  • 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.

E - Chinese

Pronunciation

  • Cantonese (Jyutping): ji1

Verb

E

  1. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 𪘲𬺌 (ji1).

Pronunciation 1

  • Mandarin
    • (Pinyin): (yi4)
    • (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ
  • Cantonese (Jyutping): ji1
  • Min Nan
    • (Hokkien, POJ): i
    • (Teochew, Peng'im): i5
  • Wu (Wiktionary): 1i

Letter

E

  1. The fifth letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2

  • Mandarin
    • (Pinyin): ē (e1)
    • (Zhuyin):

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).

E - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /eː/

Letter

E (capital, lowercase e)

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

E - Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /e/
  • (phoneme): IPA: /e/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

Noun

E

  1. Abbreviation of eosto (east).

E - Estonian

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E - Finnish

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

Noun

E

  1. Abbreviation of eximia cum laude approbatur.

E - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ə/

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.

E - Galician

Noun

E

  1. leste (east)

Synonyms

  • (east): L

E - German

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ʔeː/
  • Homophones: Ä (one pronunciation), eh

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • (letter or phoneme itself; identifier): IPA: [ˈɛː]
  • (musical note): IPA: [ˈeː] (in the names of major scales; see also e)

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
Possessive forms of E

Derived terms

E - Ido

Letter

E (lower case e)

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

E - Indonesian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E - Italian

Pronunciation

  • (phonemic realization) IPA: /e/, /ɛ/
    • Homophones: e, è

Letter

E f or m (invariable, upper case, lower case e)

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

Noun

E m

  1. Abbreviation of est; east

E - Latvian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ɛ]
  • IPA: [æ]

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

Usage notes

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, , 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.

E - Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA: [i]
  • (Phoneme 1) IPA: [e], [ɛ]
  • (Phoneme 2) IPA: [ə]

Letter

E

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

E - Norwegian Bokmål

Letter

E (lowercase e)

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

E - Nupe

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: /e/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E - Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɛ/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E - Portuguese

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E - Romani

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /e/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /e/, /je/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

Usage notes

At the beginnings of some common words, this letter takes on the sound of /je/ as in este (/ˈje.ste/).

The digraph ea represents the diphthong /e̯a/, as in prea (/pre̯a/).

E - Saanich

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ə/

Letter

E

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

E - Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA: /e/, /ɛ/

Letter

E (lower case e)

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

E - Slovene

Alternative forms

  • Є (Metelko alphabet)

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme, Standard Slovene): IPA: /éː/, /èː/, /ɛ́/, /ɛ́ː/, /ɛ̀ː/, /ə́/, /ə̀/, /e/, /ɛ/, [ɪ́], [ɪ̀], [é̞], [è̞]
  • (phoneme, Resian): IPA: /ɛ/
  • (phoneme, Natisone Valley dialect): IPA: /ɛː/, /ɛ/, /ɛ̆/
  • (letter name): IPA: /èː/, /éː/
  • (letter name, archaic): IPA: /ɛ́/
  • Homophone: e

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The sixth letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. The eighth letter of the Resian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  3. The sixth letter of the Natisone Valley dialect alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

E m inan or n

  1. The name of the Latin script letter E / e.

Usage notes

Nowadays, it is hardly ever neuter gender, so it is considered obsolete.

Inflection

  • Overall more common
Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing. E
gen. sing. E-ja
  • More common when with a definite adjective
Masculine inan., no endings
nom. sing. E
gen. sing. E
  • Obsolete
Neuter, no endings
nom. sing. E
gen. sing. E

E - Somali

Pronunciation

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

Letter

E upper case (lower case e)

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

Usage notes

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

E - Spanish

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

Noun

E m

  1. Abbreviation of este; east

E - Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: E
  • (letter name, Filipino alphabet): IPA: /ˈʔi/, [ˈʔɪ]
  • (letter name, Abakada alphabet, Abecedario): IPA: /ˈʔe/, [ˈʔɛ]
  • (phoneme): IPA: /e/, [ɛ]

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e, Baybayin spelling )

  1. The fifth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Filipino alphabet), called i and written in the Latin script.
  2. The fifth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abakada alphabet), called e and written in the Latin script.
  3. (historical) The sixth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abecedario), called e and written in the Latin script.

E - Turkish

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E - Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E - Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /eː/

Letter

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.

Mutation

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

E - Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA: /e/
  • (letter name): IPA: /é/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The fourth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called é and written in the Latin script.

E - Zulu

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

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