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Small capital E FUT [2] /e̞̥/ ꬲ Blackletter E Teuthonista [4] ꬳ Barred E ꬴ E with flourish Ǝ ᴲ ǝ: Turned E Pan-Nigerian alphabet: Anii alphabet [11] / ə ~ ɨ / Awing alphabet [12] / e ~ ə / Kanuri alphabet [13] Lama alphabet [14] Lukpa alphabet [15] Turka alphabet ⱻ Small capital turned E Finno-Ugric transcription (FUT) [2] Ə ...
Latin was once the universal academic language in Europe. From the 18th century, authors started using their mother tongues to write books, papers or proceedings. Even when Latin fell out of use, many Latin abbreviations continued to be used due to their precise simplicity and Latin's status as a learned language. [citation needed]
When Latin words are used as loanwords in a modern language, there is ordinarily little or no attempt to pronounce them as the Romans did; in most cases, a pronunciation suiting the phonology of the receiving language is employed. Latin words in common use in English are generally fully assimilated into the English sound system, with little to ...
The words of Gaius Mucius Scaevola when Lars Porsena captured him et facta est lux: And light came to be or was made: From Genesis, 1:3: "and there was light". Motto of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. See also Fiat lux. et hoc genus omne: and all that sort of thing: Abbreviated as e.h.g.o. or ehgo: et in Arcadia ego
Words beginning with /sC/ receive an initial supporting vowel [ɪ], unless they are preceded by a word ending in a vowel, as in [ˈskɔla] > [ɪsˈkɔla]. [23] The earliest unambiguous attestations occur in inscriptions of the second century AD. [24] In some languages, such as Spanish, word-initial /sC/ remains phonologically forbidden to this day.
(Normally additional phonemic degrees of length are handled by the extra-short or half-long diacritic, i.e. e eˑ eː or ĕ e eː , but the first two words in each of the Estonian examples are analyzed as typically short and long, /e eː/ and /n nː/, requiring a different remedy for the additional words.)
This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants is largely derived from Latin and Greek words, as are some of the names used for higher taxa , such ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Latin on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Latin in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.