e

The name of the Latin script letter E/e.

Character

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

Origin

The letter name is ultimately from Latin ē. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced, in whole or in part, five futhorc letters in the 7th century: ᛖ (e), ᚫ (æ), ᛠ (ea), ᛇ (eo), and ᛟ (œ).

Forms

E es e's

Derived

closed e efold e-folding e-form open e silent e

Noun Entry 2

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

Forms

ees ee

Noun entertainment, lifestyle

  1. The second semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat.
    • The sax comes in on the e of one.

    Coordinate Terms: and a

Origin

From the common method of counting semiquavers as "one-e-and-a, two-e-and-a" and so on.

Forms

ee

Numeral

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

Forms

E es e's

Pronoun

  1. A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
    • E invites em to consider how ey represent emselves^([sic]), and in so doing, e focuses eir attention on the ethics that make human relations possible. - 2000, Jane Love, “Ethics, Plugged and Unplugged: The Pegagogy of...
    • Empre waded out to help them cross the last stretch. More people, a few hundred, perhaps, had gathered along the shore. One of them came running at Melu with a cry—she threw up her arms in defense. But it was Aeran,...

Origin

From a deliberate apheresis of both he and she.

Forms

em eir eirs emself

Synonyms

ey