é

é U+00E9, é LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE Composition: e [U+0065] + ◌́ [U+0301] ← è [U+00E8] Latin-1 Supplement ê → [U+00EA]

é

1. Found chiefly in words borrowed from other languages. When it occurs as the last letter of the word, it indicates that the e is not silent.

   café, resumé, animé

   For details and for less common usage, see the entry for the acute accent, ⟨◌́⟩.

• IPA^(key): /ɨ/

é (uppercase É)

1. A letter of the Bilen Latin alphabet.

From Old French el, contraction of en + lou. This form is now archaic and replaced by au from ài + lou, but may still be encountered in fixed sentences and proverbs.

é

1. (archaic) in the, equivalent of au.

Now used mainly in fixed sentences and proverbs like laissai ailai le chait é formaige.

• és

• Vocabulaire raisonné et comparé du dialecte et du patois de la province de Bourgogne, by Thomas Mignard, 1870.

é (upper case É, lower case)

1. the letter e with grave accent, used to indicate that a vowel is stressed close /o/. Usually written only where stress cannot be predicted from orthography or for disambiguation, for example, és (“he/she/it is”) vs es (“it”).

• (Latin-script letters) lletres; A a (À à), B b, C c (Ç ç), D d, E e (É é, È è), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í, Ï ï), J j, K k, L l (L·L 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, Ü ü), V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

IPA^(key): [ˈɛː]

é (lower case, upper case É)

1. the ninth letter of the Czech alphabet, after e and before ě

é

1. third-person singular present indicative of sel

From Latin est, inflected form of sum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ/ [ˈɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛ

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: é

é

1. is; third-person singular present indicative of ser

   Esta árbore é dereita coma un fuso.

   This tree is straight as a spindle.

• “ser”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ser”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ser”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “é”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

For pronunciation and definitions of é – see 矮 (“short; low; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 矮).

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): [ˈeː]
• (letter name): IPA^(key): [ˈeː]

é (lower case, upper case É)

1. The tenth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called é and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) betű; A a, Á á, B b, C c, Cs cs, D d, Dz dz, Dzs dzs, E e, É é, F f, G g, Gy gy, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, Ly ly, M m, N n, Ny ny, O o, Ó ó, Ö ö, Ő ő, P p, R r, S s, Sz sz, T t, Ty ty, U u, Ú ú, Ü ü, Ű ű, V v, Z z, Zs zs. Only in the extended alphabet: Q q W w X x Y y. Commonly used: ch. Also defined: à ë. In surnames (selection): ä aa cz ds eé eö ew oe oó th ts ÿ.

• é in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• é in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• (letter name) IPA^(key): /jɛː/
• Rhymes: -jɛː

é (upper case É)

1. The seventh letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) bókstafur; A a, Á á, B b, D d, Рð, E e, É é, F f, G g, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ó ó, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, Ú ú, V v, X x, Y y, Ý ý, Þ þ, Æ æ, Ö ö

From Old Irish é, from Proto-Indo-European *éy.

• IPA^(key): /eː/, /ə/; (after ba) /jeː/

é (emphatic form eisean, disjunctive)

1. he, him
2. (referring to a masculine noun) it

From Latin ē.

• IPA^(key): /eː/

é (upper case É)

1. The letter e with an acute accent, called é fada (literally “long e”)

é

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

• (Latin-script letters) litir; A a (Á á), B b (Bh bh, bhF bhf, bP bp), C c (Ch ch), D d (Dh dh, dT dt), E e (É é), F f (Fh fh), G g (gC gc, Gh gh), H h, I i (Í í), L l, M m (mB mb, Mh mh), N n (nD nd, nG ng), O o (Ó ó), P p (Ph ph), R r, S s (Sh sh), T t (Th th, tS ts), U u (Ú ú), V v
• (diacritics) ◌́ ◌̇
• (dotted letters used chiefly in Gaelic type) Ḃ ḃ, Ċ ċ, Ḋ ḋ, Ḟ ḟ, Ġ ġ, Ṁ ṁ, Ṗ ṗ, Ṡ ẛ ṡ, Ṫ ṫ

• (Latin-script letter names) litir; á, bé, cé, dé, é, eif, gé, héis, í, jé, cá, eil, eim, ein, ó, pé, cú, ear, eas, té, ú, vé, wae, ex, yé, zae
• Note: The English names are also widely used by Irish speakers.

The addition of an acute accent to the letter ⟨E⟩ is derived from Latin, where it was used—as a less common alternative to the grave accent—with disambiguation purposes, e.g. in a word-final syllable to mark the word as an adverb (cōnstanter → constantér).

• IPA^(key): /e/

é (upper case É)

1. The letter ⟨e⟩ when pronounced /e/.

• The letter is usually only found in word-final position, unless one wants to make the pronunciation of a word-initial or -medial stressed /e/ explicit (e.g. spesso /ˈspesso/ → spésso).

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and é for development of the glyph itself.

é (lower case, upper case É)

1. The eighth letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) A a, Ą ą, àã, B b, C c, D d, E e, É é, Ë ë, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, Ł ł, M m, N n, O o, Ò ò, Ó ó, Ô ô, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, Ù ù, W w, Y y, Z z, Ż ż

é

1. third-person singular present indicative of êse; “[​he/she/it​] is”

é

1. one

• éllé

• Greg Pearson, René van den Berg, Lote Grammar Sketch (2008)

• e — nonstandard

• Audio:

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é (e², Zhuyin ㄜˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 俄
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 吪
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 哦
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 囫
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 娥
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 峨
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 峩
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 枙
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 涐
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 珴
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 皒
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 睋
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 硪
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 磀
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 莪
16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蛾
17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 訛 / 讹
18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 誐 / 𰵮
19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 譌 / 𰵑
20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 讹
21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 迗
22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鈋 / 𨱂
23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鋧 / 𰽢
24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 锄
25. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 隲
26. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 頟 / 额
27. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 額 / 额
28. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 额
29. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 騀 / 𱅗
30. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 魤
31. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鵝 / 鹅
32. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鵞 / 鹅
33. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鹅

From Proto-Vietic *ʔɛh. Cognate with Vietnamese ỉa (“to shit”).

In Mường Bi (and pretty much all Muong lects, per Ngữ âm tiếng Mường qua các phương ngôn), this word is both a verb and a noun, unlike the Vietnamese word, which is strictly verbal. The cognate of Vietnamese cứt in Mường Bi is kếch, whose meaning shifted to "rusted, rusty".

• IPA^(key): /ʔɛ⁵/

é

1. (Mường Bi) to take a shit

é

1. (Mường Bi) shit

• Nguyễn Văn Khang, Bùi Chỉ, Hoàng Văn Hành (2002) Từ điển Mường - Việt (Muong - Vietnamese dictionary)‎^[1], Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Văn hoá Dân tộc Hà Nội.

é

1. he, she

NOM	é
ACC	alum
DAT	ékégébé
ABL	ékégélo
GEN	ékégé
COM	ékégélékobé

é (upper case É)

1. A variant of e representing an /e/ with a high tone (/e˥/)

• (Latin-script letters) A a (Á á, Ą ą, Ą́ ą́), B b, Ch ch, Chʼ chʼ, D d, Dl dl, Dz dz, E e (É é, Ę ę, Ę́ ę́), G g, Gh gh, H h, Hw hw, X x, I i (Í í, Į į, Į́ į́), J j, K k, Kʼ kʼ, Kw kw, ʼ, L l, Ł ł, M m, N n (Ń ń), O o (Ó ó, Ǫ ǫ, Ǫ́ ǫ́), S s, Sh sh, T t, Tʼ tʼ, Tł tł, Tłʼ tłʼ, Ts ts, Tsʼ tsʼ, W w, Y y, Z z, Zh zh

• IPA^(key): /e̘/

é (upper case É)

1. A letter of the Noon alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ/

é

1. third-person singular present indicative of seer
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de Toledo, cantiga 5 (facsimile):

     Eſta ·xviiii· é como ſṫa maria aiudou · á emperadriz de roma · a ſofrer as grãdes coitaſ per que paſſou.

     This 19th is about how Holy Mary helped the empress of Rome suffer through the great pains she underwent.

• hé, hǽ

• IPA^(key): /eː/

From Proto-Celtic *es or *ēs, from Proto-Indo-European *éy.

é (feminine sí, neuter ed, emphatic ésom)

1. he
2. it (referring to a masculine noun)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:é.

• Irish: sé, Irish: é
• Scottish Gaelic: e
• Manx: eh

From Proto-Celtic *eyes (nominative plural) and *ens (accusative plural) (compare Middle Welsh wy), from Proto-Indo-European *éy.

é (emphatic ésom)

1. they

For quotations using this term, see Citations:é.

• e

From Latin et.

• IPA^(key): /e/

é

1. and

• Ladino: i
• Spanish: y, e

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: é

é

1. own; oneself
2. by motu proprio; own will
3. in fact; actually
4. even
5. really
6. only
7. but
8. because
9. again
10. for the first time
11. another time; another day
12. time will come [with 'e (+ gerund)]
13. (men's speech) expresses doubt

    Coordinate term: (woman's speech) ri

é (noun form é)

1. different

é

1. apart; separately

é (IIa class pluriform, R1 ré, R2 sé, noun form é)

1. tasty

   Synonym: e'ẽ

é (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute té, R1 ré, R2 sé)

1. flavor; taste

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “é”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 87–88

From Old French ef, from Latin apem.

• IPA^(key): /e/

é f (plural és)

1. bee

   Ch’est unne é

   It’s a bee

• Audio (São Paulo):

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: é

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese é, from Latin est.

• eh (text messaging)
• he (obsolete)

é

1. third-person singular present indicative of ser

é m (plural és)

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

   Synonym: ê

• eh (text messaging)
• éé, ééé (elongated)

é

1. Indicates agreement; that's right; yes; yeah.

   É, eu fiz isso. ― Yeah, I did that.

2. Used in hesitant speech; erm; um.

   Synonyms: hã, hum

   É... você... quer sair comigo? ― Um... do you... wanna go out with me?

• (Latin-script letter names) letra; á, bê, cê, dê, é / ê, efe / fê, gê / guê, agá, i, jota / ji, cá / capa, ele / lê, eme / mê, ene / nê, ó / ô, pê, quê, erre / rê, esse, tê, u, vê, dáblio / dâblio / duplo vê, xis, ípsilon / i grego, zê

é

1. hey, hi, you knowǃ.

   Bøø̀ go mvshìé.

   The snake is still alive.

é

1. marker of speech act participant involvement, but speaker is not actor.

• IPA^(key): [eː]

é (upper case É)

1. The twelfth letter of the Slovak alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) písmeno; A a, Á á, Ä ä, B b, C c, Č č, D d, Ď ď, Dz dz, Dž dž, E e, É é, F f, G g, H h, Ch ch, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, Ĺ ĺ, Ľ ľ, M m, N n, Ň ň, O o, Ó ó, Ô ô, P p, Q q, R r, Ŕ ŕ, S s, Š š, T t, Ť ť, U u, Ú ú, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Ý ý, Z z, Ž ž

Letter e with acute (◌́) to signify long close-mid stressed vowel.

• (sound): IPA^(key): /éː/, /èː/
• (letter name): IPA^(key): /òːski èː/, /òːski éː/ (ozki e)
• Rhymes: -eː

é (upper case, lower case é)

1. Additional letter, used to denote the long stress on close-mid e.

é

1. (non-tonal SNPT) Phonetic transcription of sound [eː].

Letter e with acute (◌́) to signify long low-pitched vowel.

• (sound): IPA^(key): /ɛ́ː/, /ɛ̀ː/
• (letter name): IPA^(key): /akutìːrani ʃirɔ̀ːki èː/, /akutìːrani ʃirɔ̀ːki éː/ (akutirani široki e)
• Rhymes: -eː

é

1. (tonal SNPT) Phonetic transcription of sound [ɛ̀ː].

Letter e with acute (◌́) to signify short vowel.

• (sound): IPA^(key): /ɛ/

é (lower case, usually not in upper case)

1. (Natisone Valley dialect) Additional letter, used in some words to denote the short stress on e.

Letter e with acute (◌́) to signify stressed vowel.

• (Resian, sound): IPA^(key): /ɛ/

é (upper case, lower case é)

1. (Resian) Additional letter, used to denote stress on e.

• ë
• ē
• è
• e
• ê
• ȩ
• ɛ
• ḙ
• ė
• ẹ
• ə

• Toporišič, Jože (2000) Slovenska slovnica / Jože Toporišič. - 4. prenovljena in razširjena izd. (in Slovene), Maribor: Obzorja, →ISBN
• Steenwijk, Han (1994) Ortografia resiana = Tö jošt rozajanskë pïsanjë (overall work in Italian and Slovene), Padua: CLEUP
• Špehonja, Nino (2012) Nediška gramatika‎^[2] (in Italian), Poligrafice San Marco

é

1. obsolete spelling of e

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː/

é

1. Form of e, used to mark that the letter is long and fully stressed.

• Although this is considered a variant of e and is not an independent letter in the Swedish alphabet, it distinguishes a few words such as idé (“idea”) and ide (“place of hibernation”).

• é on the Swedish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sv

• IPA^(key): /ɛ́/

é (upper case É)

1. A letter of the Tlingit alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• Canada:
• (Latin-script letters) A a, Á á, À à,  â, Ch ch, Chʼ chʼ, D d, Dł dł, Dz dz, E e, É é, È è, Ê ê, G g, Gw gw, Gh gh, Ghw ghw, H h, I i, Í í, Ì ì, Πî, J j, K k, Kw kw, Kʼ kʼ, Kʼw kʼw, Kh kh, Khw khw, Khʼ khʼ, Khʼw khʼw (L l), Ł ł, Łʼ łʼ (M m), N n (O o), S s, Sʼ sʼ, Sh sh, T t, Tʼ tʼ, Tl tl, Tlʼ tlʼ, Ts ts, Tsʼ tsʼ, U u, Ú ú, Ù ù, Û û, W w, X x, Xw xw, Xʼ xʼ, Xʼw xʼw, Xh xh, Xhw xhw, Xhʼ xhʼ, Xhʼw xhʼw, Y y (Ÿ ÿ), ․
• US:
• (Latin-script letters) A a, Á á, Aa aa, Áa áa, Ch ch, Chʼ chʼ, D d, Dl dl, Dz dz, E e, É é, Ee ee, Ée ée, Ei ei, Éi éi, G g, Gw gw, G̱ g̱, G̱w g̱w, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, Kw kw, Kʼ kʼ, Kʼw kʼw, Ḵ ḵ, Ḵw ḵw, Ḵʼ ḵʼ, Ḵʼw ḵʼw, L l, Lʼ lʼ (Ḻ ḻ, M m), N n (O o), Oo oo, Óo óo, S s, Sʼ sʼ, Sh sh, T t, Tʼ tʼ, Tl tl, Tlʼ tlʼ, Ts ts, Tsʼ tsʼ, U u, Ú ú, W w, X x, Xw xw, Xʼ xʼ, Xʼw xʼw, X̱ x̱, X̱w x̱w, X̱ʼ x̱ʼ, X̱ʼw x̱ʼw, Y y (Ÿ ÿ, Y̱ y̱), ․

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˦˥]

(classifier cây, hạt, hột) é • (薏)

1. lemon basil

   bé như hột é ― very small (literally, “as small as a lemon basil seed”)

é (lower case, upper case É)

1. The letter e with the acute accent.

• (Quốc ngữ letters) chữ cái; A a (À à, Ả ả, àã, Á á, Ạ ạ), Ă ă (Ằ ằ, Ẳ ẳ, Ẵ ẵ, Ắ ắ, Ặ ặ),  â (Ầ ầ, Ẩ ẩ, Ẫ ẫ, Ấ ấ, Ậ ậ), B b, C c (Ch ch), D d, Đ đ, E e (È è, Ẻ ẻ, Ẽ ẽ, É é, Ẹ ẹ), Ê ê (Ề ề, Ể ể, Ễ ễ, Ế ế, Ệ ệ), G g (Gh gh, Gi gi), H h, I i (Ì ì, Ỉ ỉ, Ĩ ĩ, Í í, Ị ị), K k (Kh kh), L l, M m, N n (Ng ng, Ngh ngh, Nh nh), O o (Ò ò, Ỏ ỏ, Õ õ, Ó ó, Ọ ọ), Ô ô (Ồ ồ, Ổ ổ, Ỗ ỗ, Ố ố, Ộ ộ), Ơ ơ (Ờ ờ, Ở ở, Ỡ ỡ, Ớ ớ, Ợ ợ), P p (Ph ph), Q q (Qu qu), R r, S s, T t (Th th, Tr tr), U u (Ù ù, Ủ ủ, Ũ ũ, Ú ú, Ụ ụ), Ư ư (Ừ ừ, Ử ử, Ữ ữ, Ứ ứ, Ự ự), V v, X x, Y y (Ỳ ỳ, Ỷ ỷ, Ỹ ỹ, Ý ý, Ỵ ỵ)

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ˈɛ/

é (upper case É)

1. The letter E, marked for its short pronunciation when in a stressed final syllable of a polysyllabic word.

• IPA^(key): /e/

é

1. A letter of the Yele alphabet.

• The digraph ⟨éé⟩ transcribes the long vowel /eː/

• (Latin-script letters) A a, â, b, Ch ch, D d, e, é, ê, Gh gh, i, î, j, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ń ń, o, ó, P p, T t, U u, V v, W w, Y y, ꞉