S

Letter

S (lower case s)

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

Symbol

S

1. (chemistry) symbol for sulfur / sulphur
2. (metrology) symbol for siemens, a measure of electrical conductance.
3. (metrology) symbol for spat (obsolete astronomical unit of distance).
4. (metrology) symbol for svedberg (unit of sedimentation rate in ultracentrifugation).
5. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for serine
6. (geology) symbol for storativity
7. (mathematics, topology) sphere
8. (mathematics, computer science) The S ("substitution") combinator, defined as Sxyz = xz(yz), used in SKI calculus

Gallery

• Letter styles
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  Normal and italic S
• 
  Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur

See also

Other representations of S:

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Letter

S

1. The forth letter in the Afar alphabet.

See Also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, T t, S s, E e, C c, K k, X x, I i, D d, Q q, R r, F f, G g, O o, L l, M m, N n, U u, W w, H h, Y y

Letter

(transliteration needed) (Stokoe S)

1. The letter S

Letter

S upper case (lower case s)

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ɛs/

• Audio

  (file)

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

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

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called so and written in the Latin script.

Abbreviation

S

1. Abbreviation of sudo (“south”).
2. (text messaging) Abbreviation of ŝi (“she”).

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called äs or es and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (letter) IPA^(key): /ɛs/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛs

Abbreviation

S

1. Abbreviation of sud; south.

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

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

Abbreviation

S

1. sur (south)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔɛs/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: es

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the German alphabet, called es and written in the Latin script.
   • 1877, Dr. Schröer, Gelegentlche Bemerkungen über erhöhte Ansprüche, die nun an die Aufzeichnung mundartlicher Sprachproben zu stellen wären, in: Die deutschen Mundarten. Zeitschrift für Dichtung, Forschung und Kritik. Herausgegeben von Dr. G. karl Frommann. Siebenter Band (neuer Folge erster Band), page 15:

     Für die zweierlei S, das scharfe ß und das weiche, tönende s, sind die Zeichen s und ſ zu empfehlen. Letzteres wird im Französischen, Englischen, Holländischen, Polnischen, Madjarischen mit z bezeichnet, das wir nicht annehmen können, weil bei uns, wie schon bemerkt, z den Laut ts bezeichnet.

Abbreviation

S

1. Abbreviation of Süd; south

Etymology

Related to the French Sign Language sign for "S".

Production

This one-handed GSL sign is produced as follows:

• Posture the dominant hand in the “S” shape.

Letter

(transliteration needed)

1. the letter S

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

S (lower case s)

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

Pronunciation

• (name of letter) IPA^(key): /ˈɛsse/
• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /s/, /z/
• (phoneme, when followed by a voiceless consonant) IPA^(key): /s/
• (phoneme, when followed by a voiced consonant) IPA^(key): /z/

Letter

S m, f (invariable, lower case s)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called esse and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) lettera; A a (À à), B b, C c, D d, E e (É é, È è), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í, Ì ì, Πî, J j, K k), L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ò ò), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú, Ù ù), V v (W w, X x, Y y), Z z
• Italian alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) エ​ス [éꜜsù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [e̞sɨᵝ]

Etymology 1

From English superior.

Etymology 2

From English small

Etymology 3

From English sadism

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s]

Letter

S

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called es and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (Name of letter) IPA^(key): [ɛs]
• (Phoneme) IPA^(key): [s]

Letter

S

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

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se/, /es/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Romanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

S

1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

S (lower case s)

1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) bukva; A a,  â, B b, C c, Č č, Ʒ ʒ, Ǯ ǯ, D d, Đ đ, E e, F f, G g, Ǧ ǧ, Ǥ ǥ, H h, I i, J j, K k, Ǩ ǩ, L l, M m, N n, Ŋ ŋ, O o, Õ õ, P p, R r, S s, Š š, T t, U u, V v, Z z, Ž ž, Å å, Ä ä, ʹ

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /s/
• (letter name): IPA^(key): /sæ/

Letter

S upper case (lower case s)

1. The ninth letter of the Somali alphabet, called sa and written in the Latin script.

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The twentieth letter of the Spanish alphabet, called es and written in the Latin script.

Abbreviation

S

1. Abbreviation of sur; south

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Turkish alphabet, called se and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɛt̚˧˦ si˨˩], [ʔɛt̚˧˦ si˨˩], [səː˨˩], [səː˨˩ naŋ˧˨ʔ]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɛt̚˦˧˥ ʂɪj˦˩], [ʔɛt̚˦˧˥ sɪj˦˩], [ʂəː˦˩], [ʂəː˦˩ naŋ˨˩ʔ]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɛk̚˦˥ ʂɪj˨˩], [ʔɛk̚˦˥ sɪj˨˩], [ʂəː˨˩], [ʂəː˨˩ naŋ˨˩˨]
• Phonetic: ét sì, ét xì, sờ, sờ nặng

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called ét, ét-xì, sờ, or sờ nặng and written in the Latin script.

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

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