ef

See also: ef-, -ef, and EF

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛf/
  • Homophone: eff

Noun

ef (plural efs)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛf]

Noun

ef n

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.

Further reading

  • ef in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • ef in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛf]
  • Audio(file)

Noun

ef

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse ef, from Proto-Germanic *jabai.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛːv/
  • Rhymes: -ɛːv

Conjunction

ef

  1. if

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

ef (indeclinable)

  1. The name of the letter F.

Usage notes

  • Multiple Latin names for the letter F, f have been suggested. The most common is ef or a syllabic f, although there is some evidence which also supports, as names for the letter, fē, əf, fə, and even (in the fourth- or fifth-century first Antinoë papyrus, which gives Greek transliterations of the Latin names of the Roman alphabet’s letters) ιφφε (iphphe).

Coordinate terms

References

  • Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), especially pages 30–31, 42–44, and 63

Latvian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɛf]
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Noun

ef m (invariable)

  1. The Latvian name of the Latin script letter F/f.

See also

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin apem, accusative singular of apis.

Noun

ef m (oblique plural es, nominative singular es, nominative plural ef)

  1. bee

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (ef)

Old Saxon

Conjunction

ef

  1. if, when

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *éy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eːv/

Pronoun

ef

  1. (literary) he; him

Synonyms

  • e, o (colloquial)
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