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see|Appendix:Variations of "e"
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Translingual
Image:Latin E.png|thumb|The letter e

Letter
|page=E
|NATO=Echo
|Morse=·
|Character=E5
|Braille=â �

Etymology
Image:Greek uc epsilon.png|left|50px|Greek � (E, �Epsilon�), the source for Latin E
From Gk. letter term|scGrek|�|trE||Epsilon.
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Letter
infl|mul|letter|upper case||lower case|e

1. A letter of the Latin script, the fifth in many alphabets, including English.

See also
qualifier|select forms with diacritics � � � � � �
qualifier|select similar letters and symbols � �
qualifier|other scripts term|scGrek|�|trE||epsilon|Epsilon term|scCyrl|�|trje
See Appendix:Variations of "e"

Symbol
infl|mul|symbol

1. Representing &times; 10^x in floating-point notation.

#:2E5 = 2 &times; 10⁵

1. computing hexadecimal|Hexadecimal symbol for 14.
2. physics energy|Energy.

English

Pronunciation
sense|phoneme IPA|/E/|/i�/|silent
sense|letter name IPA|/i�/, SAMPA|/i:/
:rhymes|i�

Etymology 1
From ME. and OE. upper case letter term|E and split of term|�, term|EA, term|EO, and term|�, from five 7th century replacements of Anglo-Saxon Futhorcs by Latin letters:
Image:Runic letter ehwaz.png|15px|Anglo-Saxon Futhorc � (e) OE. letter term|E, from replacement by Latin letter term|E of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter term|�|tr=e.
Image:Rune-�sc.png|15px|Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter � (æ) OE. letter term|�|langang from replacement by Latin ligature term|�|langla of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter term|�|tr=æ.
Image:Rune-Ear.png|15px|Anglo-Saxon Futhorc � (ea) OE. digraph term|EA, from replacement by Latin digraph term|EA of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter term|�|tr=ea.
Image:Runic letter iwaz.png|15px|Anglo-Saxon Futhorc � (�o) OE. digraph term|EO|langang from replacement by Latin digraph term|EO|langenm of Anglo-Saxon Futhorc term|�|tr=�o.
Image:Rune-Eðel.png|15px|Anglo-Saxon Futhorc � (�) OE. letter term|�|langang from replacement by Latin ligature term|�|langla of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter term|�|tr=�.

Letter
infl|en|letter|upper case||lower case|e

1. The fifth letter of the Appendix:Roman script|English alphabet.

See also
Previous letter: D
Next letter: F

Etymology 2
sense|ESRB rating|everyone Abbreviation of term|everyone
sense|East Abbreviation of term|east
sense|slang|ecstasy Abbreviation of term|ecstacy
sense|grade From the position of the letter term|E in the English alphabet

Symbol
infl|en|symbol

1. context|ESRB rating everyone|Everyone.
2. East

Noun
en-noun

1. context|street slang The illicit drug ecstasy (MDMA).
2. 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 1859843182, 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 1405105860, 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 &ndash; that were all right.
#*2005, S. J. Smith, Joe Public, Virtualbookworm Publishing, ISBN 1589397681, 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 1905315007, 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.�

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Finnish

Noun
fi-noun

1. eximia cum laude approbatur

Romanian

Pronunciation
IPA|lang=ro|/e/|/je/

Letter
infl|ro|letter|cat=alphabet|upper case||lower case|e

1. The seventh letter of the Romanian alphabet.

Usage notes
At the beginnings of many words, this letter takes on the sound of IPAchar|/je/ as in term|este||he/she/it is IPAchar|/'je.ste/. This does not happen when the preceding word ends in a vowel, as in term||el este|he is /jel'es.te/.

When followed by the letter term|a|lang=ro, a dipthong representing the phoneme /e̯a/ or /æ/ is formed, as in term|prea /præ/

See also
Previous letter: D
Next letter: F

an:E
zh-min-nan:E
de:E
et:E
el:E
fr:E
gl:E
ko:E
hr:E
io:E
ia:E
ie:E
kl:E
ku:E
la:E
lt:E
ml:E
ms:E
ja:E
no:E
pl:E
pt:E
ro:E
ru:E
sq:E
simple:E
sk:E
sl:E
fi:E
sv:E
chr:E
tr:E
zh:E

• 2007-12-11 00:40 - Rodasmith - the "other scripts" are translingual rather than English

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