Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ETH
ETH
Definitions of ETH
- A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in English but still in modern use in Icelandic, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language.
- A short form of the female given name Ethel.
- (rail transport, UK) Initialism of electric train heat/heating.
Number of letters
3
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using ETH in a Sentence
- Some (the uppercase letters alpha, eth (x12px), esh, and both lower- and upper-case 20px, 20px) cannot be accurately represented in Unicode (as of version 15, 2023).
- Among these are the preference between the runic character thorn (Þ, lower-case þ, from the rune of the same name) and the letter eth (Ð or ð), both of which are equivalent to modern ⟨th⟩ and were interchangeable.
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