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eszett

eszett noun: the name of the Latin script letter ẞ/ß.

Noun

eszett (plural eszetts)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter ẞ/ß.
    • In fits of concealed despair that went unnoticed even by those close enough to touch, Julien cursed the language of umlauts, eszetts, and gerunds.1997, Matthew Piepenburg, Time and the Maiden, →ISBN, page 62
    • In German, the ß character is called eszett. It’s used in “Straße,” the word for street, and in the expletive “Scheiße.” It’s often transliterated as “ss,” and strangely enough, it’s never had an official uppercase counterpart. […] At a 1903 typography conference, attendees decided that they would...2017 July 20, Thu-Huong Ha, “Germany has ended a century-long debate over a missing letter in its alphabet”, in Quartz, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2019
    Synonyms:
    double S, sharp s

Synonyms of eszett

Forms of eszett

pluraleszetts

Origin of eszett

Borrowed from German Eszett, from the names of the letters S and Z which make up its blackletter form.

Questions about eszett

What does eszett mean?
Eszett means the name of the Latin script letter ẞ/ß.
What part of speech is eszett?
Eszett is a noun.
What is the plural of eszett?
The plural of eszett is eszetts.

Words near eszett in the dictionary

  1. ESWT
  2. esyl
  3. esylate
  4. esylates
  5. esymplastic
  6. eszett
  7. eszetts
  8. eszopiclone
  9. Esztergom
  10. et
  11. et al

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