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Does anyone know the name of the ae combined symbol in Latin?
In names like Aeschylus, or words like praetorium?
Diphthong is the term for any two vowels sounded together. I'm looking for the name of the printed character ae.
5 Answers
- Chelsea79Lv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
It's a grapheme of A and E.
As a letter of the Old English alphabet, it was called æsc ‘ash tree' , but in modern English, it's just referred to as "ash"
- bruhahaLv 71 decade ago
"ash" is correct. Or more fully the "ash ligature". (A ligature is the name for two or more letters combined to form a single character.)
Another ligature you sometimes see in English isœ (o + e), called the "ethel" (which you might find in a word like "onomatopoeia").
Funny thing is I didn't learn about "ligatures" in English class (though I'd seen a few), but from reading German, where in place of a double-s at the end of a word you might see the ligature ß
- anobium625Lv 61 decade ago
I have no quarrel with the previous answer. On my computer one can print æ by holding down the Option key and striking the apostrophe (').
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