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v

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Translingual

Etymology 1

Minuscule variation of Latin V, from seventh century Old Latin adoption of Old Italic letter 𐌖 (V), from Ancient Greek letter Υ (Y, “Upsilon”).

Letter

v (upper case V)

The twenty-second letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Etymology 2

Lower case form of upper case roman numeral V, from abbreviation of IIIIΛ or IIIIV (representing 5), from tally stick markings resembling \\\\⋁ or ////⋌, from the practice of designating each fifth notch with a double cut, like the corresponding Western tally mark, .

Alternative forms

V, Ⅴ, ⅴ

Numeral

v (lower case Roman numeral, upper case V)

cardinal number five (5).

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Symbol

(physics) velocity
(phonetics) used in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent a voiced labiodental fricative (/v/).

Gallery

Letter styles

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English lower case letter v (also written u), from Old English lower case u and respelling of Old English f between vowels and voiced consonants.

Old English lower case f from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case f of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚠ (f, “feoh”), derived from Etruscan letter 𐌅 (v).
Old English lower case u from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case v of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚢ (u, “ur”), derived from Raetic letter u.

Before the 1700s, the pointed form v was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form u was used elsewhere, regardless of sound. So whereas valor and excuse appeared as in modern printing, have and upon were printed haue and vpon. Eventually, in the 1700s, to differentiate between the consonant and vowel sounds, the v form was used to represent the consonant, and u the vowel sound. v then preceded u in the alphabet, but the order has since reversed.

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /v/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /viː/ (spelled vee)

Letter

v (lower case, upper case V, plural vs or v's)

The twenty-second letter of the English alphabet, called vee and written in the Latin script.

Noun

v (plural vs or v's)

a shape resembling the letter v
The impact was so strong, it bent the bar into a v.

Etymology 2

Clipping of very.

Adverb

(informal) Very.
You were acting v rude to his boyfriend on New Year's.

Etymology 3

Clipping of versus.

Preposition

Abbreviation of versus.
Synonym: vs

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /v/

Letter

v lower case (upper case V)

The thirtieth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Basque

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /u.be/, [u.βe]

Letter

v (lower case, upper case V)

The twenty-third letter of the Basque alphabet, called uve and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

Catalan

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /v/, IPA^(key): /b/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /ve/, IPA^(key): /be/ (spelled ve); IPA^(key): /veˈβaʃə/, IPA^(key): /beˈβaʃə/ (spelled ve baixa)

Letter

v (lower case, upper case V)

The twenty-second letter of the Catalan alphabet, called ve and written in the Latin script.

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vъ(n), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /v/

Preposition

in (inside, for an enclosed space) (followed by the locative case)
at (indicating time) (followed by the accusative case)
on (indicating a day) (followed by the accusative case)
in (indicating a year) (followed by the locative case)
in (indicating a month) (followed by the locative case)
in (used after certain verbs) (followed by the accusative case)

Usage notes

The more usual form is v, while ve is used before words starting with f, v, w and certain consonant clusters

Synonyms

Dutch

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -eː
(letter name): IPA^(key): /veː/

Letter

v (lower case, upper case V)

The twenty-second letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Letter

v (lower case, upper case V)

The twenty-seventh letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called vo and written in the Latin script.

Faroese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /v/

Letter

v (upper case V)

The twenty-fifth letter of the Faroese alphabet, called ve and written in the Latin script.

Finnish

Pronunciation

Letter

v (lower case, upper case V)

The twenty-second letter of the Finnish alphabet, called vee and written in the Latin script.

Noun

Abbreviation of vuosi.
Abbreviation of -vuotias.

French

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA^(key): /ve/

Letter

v (lower case, upper case V)

The twenty-second letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
- Through searching himself thus for a name that did not diverge too much from his own, that would suit and represent the great lady and princess, he came to call her Dulcinea del Toboso, because she was a native of this village [Toboso]: a name in his opinion harmonious, rare and distinguished, and no less expressive than all the ones that he had given to his team and to himself.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): [ ˈv]
(letter name): IPA^(key): [ ˈveː]

Letter

v (lower case, upper case V)

The thirty-eighth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called vé and written in the Latin script.

Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA^(key): /vafː/

Letter

v (upper case V)

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

Ido

Pronunciation

(context pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v/
(letter name) IPA^(key): /ve/

Letter

v (upper case V)

The twenty-second letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Italian

Noun

v m or f (invariable)

See under V

Latin

Alternative forms

u (post-Classical)

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /w/, /u/, /uː/

Letter

v (lower case, upper case V)

(sometimes with littera) The 20th letter of the Latin alphabet.

References

v in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
v in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Latvian

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): [v]

Letter

v (lower case, upper case V)

The thirty-first letter of the Latvian alphabet, called vē and written in the Latin script.

Livonian

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /v/

Letter

v (upper case V)

The thirty-seventh letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Malay

Letter

v (lower case, upper case V)

The twenty-second letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Maltese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /v/
IPA^(key): /f/ (by final devoicing or assimilation to a following voiceless obstruent)
Apart form the word iva, this letter occurs exclusively in borrowings.

Letter

v (lower case, upper case V)

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

Mandarin

Romanization

Nonstandard form of ü.

Usage notes

Used as a substitute for ü in pinyin-based character input systems. As a result, it occasionally appears in print as well, though this is nonstandard.

Mapudungun

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /ɨ/

Letter

v (upper case V)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Mapudungun alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Middle French

Etymology

Latin u, v.

Letter

u (letter)
v (letter)

Usage notes

u and v were represented by a single character in Middle French, although scholars consider them to be separate letters both in terms of usage and in terms of pronunciation.

Norwegian

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /ʋeː/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /ʋ/, /v/, /f/

Letter

The 22nd letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Portuguese

Letter

v (lower case, upper case V)

The twenty-second letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called vê and written in the Latin script.

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /v/

Letter

v (lower case, upper case V)

The twenty-seventh letter of the Romanian alphabet, called ve or vî and written in the Latin script.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

(uppercase) V

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /ʋ/

Letter

v (Cyrillic spelling в)

The 28th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by u and followed by z.

Obsolete form of u.

Preposition

v (Cyrillic spelling в)

(Kajkavian) (+ locative case) in, at
(Kajkavian) (+ accusative case) to, into
(Kajkavian) (+ accusative case) on, in, at, during (in expressions concerning time)
(Kajkavian) (+ locative case) in, during (in expressions concerning time)

Synonyms

u, vu, f

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /v/

Letter

v (upper case V)

The thirty-second letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Slovene

Etymology 1

Letter

The twenty-third letter of the Slovene alphabet, called ve and written in the Latin script.

Alternative forms

(uppercase) V

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *vъ(n).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʋ/

Preposition

(answering question where) (with locative) in, inside, at
(answering question where to) (with accusative) to, into
(indicating a day) (with accusative) on, in, at, during (in expressions concerning time)
(indicating a month or period of time) (with locative) in, during

Spanish

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /b/
(letter name):
- (traditional) IPA^(key): /ˈbe/ (spelled ve)
- (common in most countries) IPA^(key): /ˈu.βe/ (spelled uve)
- (common in some countries) IPA^(key): /ˌbe ˈkoɾta/ (ve corta), /ˌbe ˈβa.xa/ (ve baja), ve pequeña, or /ˌbe ˈt͡ʃika/ (ve chica)

Letter

v (lower case, upper case V)

The twenty-third (23rd) letter of the Spanish alphabet.

Usage notes

The common letter names, as well as phrases like ve de vaca are used to distinguish the letter v from the letter b. This is done because the two letters represent a single phoneme in modern Spanish, causing their traditional names be and ve both to be pronounced as /ˈbe/.

Turkish

Letter

v (lower case, upper case V)

The twenty-seventh letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ve and written in the Latin script.

Zulu

Letter

v (lower case, upper case V)

The twenty-second letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Translingual

Etymology 1

Letter

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Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Numeral

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Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Symbol

Gallery

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English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

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Noun

Etymology 2

Adverb

Etymology 3

Preposition

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

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Basque

Pronunciation

Letter

Usage notes

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Catalan

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Czech

Etymology

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Preposition

Usage notes

Synonyms

Further reading

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

Letter

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Faroese

Pronunciation

Letter

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Finnish

Pronunciation

Letter

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Noun

French

Pronunciation

Letter

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Letter

Declension

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Further reading

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Letter

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Ido

Pronunciation

Letter

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Italian

Noun