pe

Alternative forms

• pei, pey

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɪ/

Noun

pe

1. The seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).

Further reading

• Pe (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EP, ep

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *petja, from Proto-Indo-European *petino, from *pet 'to spread out, to extend' (compare English fathom). Alternatively from Latin pannus 'cloth, rag, garment'; cf. Greek πανί (paní).^[1]

Noun

pe m (indefinite plural penjë, definite singular peri, definite plural penjtë)

1. thread

References

Etymology

From Sãotomense pe (“father”), from Portuguese pai (“father”), from Old Portuguese pay, padre (“father”), from Latin patrem (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

Noun

pe

1. father

References

• 2005, John H. McWhorter, Defining Creole

Conjunction

pe

1. or

Adjective

pe (interrogative adjective)

1. which, what

Noun

pe f (plural pes)

1. The Hebrew letter פ‎ (final form ף‎).
2. The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ᵐbe/

Noun

pe

1. water

References

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Noun

pe n (genitive singular pes, plural pe)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.

Etymology

Abbreviation of perjantai.

Abbreviation

pe

1. perjantai (Friday)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe/, /pɛ/

Noun

pe (plural pe-i)

1. The name of the Latin script letter P/p.

Romanization

pe

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぺ (hiragana)
2. Rōmaji transcription of ペ (katakana)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /peː/

Noun

pē (indeclinable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.

References

• pe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part III: “Summary of the Ancient Evidence”, page 32: "Clearly there is no question or doubt about the names of the vowels A, E, I, O, U. They are simply long A, long E, etc. (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). Nor is there any uncertainty with respect to the six mutes B, C, D, G, P, T. Their names are bē, cē, dē, gē, pē, tē (each with a long E). Or about H, K, and Q: they are hā, kā, kū—each, again, with a long vowel sound."

Etymology

From Latin per, from Proto-Indo-European *peri, derived from the root *per- (“to go over”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe/

Preposition

pe

1. for
2. to
3. through
4. in or on
5. by
6. with
7. as

pe + article	Combined form
pe + o	pe-o
pe + a	pe-a
pe + i	pe-i
pe + e	pe-e

Etymology

From Latin per.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe/, (Naples) IPA^(key): /pə/

Preposition

pe

1. for

Etymology

From Latin pedem, accusative of pes. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French pié.

Noun

pe m (oblique plural pes, nominative singular pes, nominative plural pe)

1. foot (anatomy)

Particle

pe

1. Abbreviation of peyyāla.

Alternative forms

• pă (Muntenia, informal), pi (Moldova), pre (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin per, with meaning influenced by super.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe/
• Rhymes: -e

Preposition

pe (+accusative)

1. on

   cartea este pe masă - The book is on the table.

2. (no lexical meaning) used to indicate direct object in some cases

   o aștept pe mama - I'm waiting on/for mom.

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) pei
• (Puter, Vallader) pè

Etymology

From Latin pēs, pedem (“foot”), from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.

Noun

pe m (plural pes or peis)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, anatomy) foot

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe/

  • (file)

• Rhymes: -e

Noun

pe f (plural pes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.

Further reading

• “pe” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Compare the nominative/accusative dual form, peṃ, presumably from a Proto-Tocharian dual *peine (whence also Tocharian B nominative/accusative dual form paine), from an earlier *pei, from the Proto-Indo-European dual *póde, from *pṓds. It is from this dual form in Proto-Tocharian that the singular forms have probably been analogically built. Compare Tocharian B paiyye. ^[1]

Noun

pe m

1. foot

References

Noun

pe (definite accusative peyi, plural peler)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.

Noun

pe (definite accusative ?, plural ?)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.

Conjunction

pe

1. if

   Pe bawn i'n gyfoethog, teithiwn i o gwmpas y byd — If I were rich, I would travel around the world.