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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.

E (lower case e)

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

E

  1. (sciences, computing) symbol separating mantissa from the exponent in scientific notation
    2E5 = 2 × 10⁵
  2. (computing, hexadecimal symbol) fourteen
    Synonyms: 14, XIV, xiv
  3. (physics) energy
    Coordinate term: W
    E = mc²
  4. (biochemistry, IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation) glutamic acid
    Synonym: Glu
    Near-synonym: E620
  5. (mathematics) expectation function
  6. exa- (= × 10¹⁸)
  7. (linguistics) a wildcard for a front vowel
    synonyms: I
  8. (clothing) bra cup size
  9. (license plate codes) Spain

Other representations of E:

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:

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.
    • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
      On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D.

E (upper case, lower case e, plural Es or E's)

  1. The fifth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Abbreviation.

E

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

E (plural Es)

  1. (slang) The drug ecstasy (MDMA), particularly in pill form.
    • 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 156:
      Sick Boy brings oot some E. White doves; ah think. It's mental gear. Most Ecstasy hasnae any MDMA in it, it's just likesay, ken, part speed, part acid in its effects . . .
    • 1995, “Sorted For E’s and Wizz”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), 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
    • 2002, Hugh Mackay, Winter Close, Sydney: Hodder Headline, →ISBN, page 85:
      You mentioned you were taking stuff. Did you mean ecstasy? / What else? It’s excellent. I’m not an addict or nothing, and I steer clear of crack and that. People say E is for losers but, hey, I’d never be without some eccy in my bag.
  2. (chiefly LGBTQ) Abbreviation of estrogen or estradiol.
    Coordinate term: 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 […]
    • 2003, 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.

slang: estrogen/estradiol

grade below D

abbreviation of episode

E

  1. (religion) Abbreviation of Elohist.
  2. (stock ticker symbol) Abbreviation of Eni.
    • 2020 August 18, Matt Egan, “It’s a bizarre time for Trump to open Alaska’s Arctic refuge up to oil drilling”, in CNN Business‎[1]:
      Magnus said that companies such as Italy’s Eni (E) and ConocoPhillips (COP) that already operate in Alaska could be interested in drilling in ANWR.

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄂 (È).

E

  1. (history) A state in ancient China of varying location in present-day Shanxi, Henan, and Hubei.
    • 2002, The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 229:
      The discovery suggests also that the center of the state of E was located in the Suizao corridor in Hubei, not far from the location of E as suggested by ancient geographical works.
    • 2006, Li Feng, Landscape and Power in Early China‎[3], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 330–331:
      These three bronzes, though clearly modeled on Zhou types, are quite distinctive from the Zhou tradition. They suggest that, although the state of E served as an ally and agent of the Western Zhou state, it probably had a distinctive cultural origin of its own.
    • 2014, Liu Yang, Cast for Eternity‎[4], Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 15:
      A six-character inscription cast inside the bowl records that this gui was made for a nobleman of the E state. Due to gaps in Chinese historical records, the exact history of the state of E is uncertain. Since the E Shu Gui was salvaged from a pile of scrap copper shipped to the Shanghai Foundry from Hubei province, some scholars have inferred that the gui was excavated from Hubei, therefore proving that the E state during the Western Zhou was located in today's Hubei province.
  2. (history) Its capital, also known as Echeng and Ezhou.
  3. A surname from Mandarin Chinese.

ancient nation

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 誒 / 诶 (ê̄), from E ɛ⁵⁵.

E

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

a Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County

Unknown.

E

  1. A river in Highland council area, Scotland.

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

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

  1. E

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The second letter of the Akawaio alphabet, written in the Latin script.

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The seventh letter of the Standard Albanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. A letter of the Central Franconian alphabet (German-based), written in the Latin script.
  2. A letter of the Central Franconian alphabet (Dutch-based), written in the Latin script.

Doubling of long E

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

Romanisation of 𪘲 / 𬺌 (ji1).

E

  1. (Cantonese, nonstandard) alternative form of 𪘲 / 𬺌 (ji1)

Romanisation of 依 (ji1).

E

  1. (Cantonese, nonstandard) alternative form of 依 (ji1, “this; these”)

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The fifth letter of the Latin alphabet as used in Chinese, written in the Latin script.

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The seventh letter of the Elfdalian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See e.

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E

  1. abbreviation of eosto (“east”)

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

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 E for information on the development of the glyph itself.

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E

  1. abbreviation of eximia cum laude approbatur
  2. alternative letter-case form of e (“E (musical note)”)

E

  1. abbreviation of est; east

E m

  1. abbreviation of est; east

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E

  1. leste (east)

E n (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The second letter of the Hawaiian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The ninth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
  1. ^ Siptár, Péter and Miklós Törkenczy. The Phonology of Hungarian. The Phonology of the World’s Languages. Oxford University Press, 2007. →ISBN, p. 280

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

From the Latin letter E, 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.

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

Abbreviation.

E (plural **E-E)

  1. (education) E: The grade below D in some grading systems. In most such systems, it is a failing grade
  2. (vehicle-distinguishing signs) vehicle number plate code for the Cirebon, Majalengka, Indramayu, and Kuningan areas

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

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

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

E m

  1. abbreviation of est; east

E

  1. Rōmaji transcription of え

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

E or Ë (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The fifth letter of the Kankanaey alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. A letter of the Latin alphabet, written in the Latin script, representing the vowels /e/ and /eː/.

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.

E

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

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.

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E

  1. alternative form of ee (“eye”)

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

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 E for development of the glyph itself.

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E m (upper case, lower case e)

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

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 (upper case, lower case e)

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

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

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The fifth letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet, written in the Latin script; preceded by D and followed by F; traditionally named eadha (“aspen”).

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The seventh letter of the Silesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

From Gaj's Latin alphabet E, from Czech alphabet E, from Latin E, 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.

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 Slovene alphabet (Resian), written in the Latin script.
  3. The sixth letter of the Slovene alphabet (Natisone Valley dialect), written in the Latin script.

E m inan or n

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

Nowadays, it is hardly ever neuter gender, so it is considered obsolete.[1]

Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing. E
gen. sing. E-ja
singular dual plural
nominative(imenovȃlnik) E E-ja E-ji
genitive(rodȋlnik) E-ja E-jev E-jev
dative(dajȃlnik) E-ju E-jema E-jem
accusative(tožȋlnik) E E-ja E-je
locative(mẹ̑stnik) E-ju E-jih E-jih
instrumental(orọ̑dnik) E-jem E-jema E-ji
Masculine inan., no endings
nom. sing. E
gen. sing. E
singular dual plural
nominative E E E
accusative E E E
genitive E E E
dative E E E
locative E E E
instrumental E E E
Neuter, no endings
nom. sing. E
gen. sing. E
singular dual plural
nominative E E E
accusative E E E
genitive E E E
dative E E E
locative E E E
instrumental E E E
  1. ^ Toporišič, Jože (2000), Slovenska slovnica / Jože Toporišič. - 4. prenovljena in razširjena izd. (in Slovene), Maribor: Obzorja, →ISBN

E (upper case, lower case e)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Somali alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script; preceded by A and followed by I.

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E m

  1. abbreviation of este; east

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

Borrowed from Spanish E. Each pronunciation has a different source:

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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

E (upper case, lower case e)

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