zê

Betekenis (Engels)

The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.

Sinonieme

z

Vertalings

zeta

zee

Zet

zeta

zet

Zett

z

zed

izzard

Z

ezed

zède

zēta

zeta

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈze/

Etimologie (Engels)

Inherited from Latin zeta, reduced by analogy with the many other letters that end with the /e/ sound (such as bê and vê). Compare English zee (from zed), Galician zeta, and Spanish zeta.
Portuguese and (American) English are the only languages in which Z is not called zeta or some variation thereof, with a biphonemic (two-sound) short form being used instead.