S

Etymology

From the Etruscan letter 𐌔 (s, “es”), from the Ancient Greek letter Σ (S, “sigma”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤔 (š, “šin”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓌒.

Letter

S (lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Sſs  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter S):  Śś  Ṥṥ  Ŝŝ  Šš  Ṧṧ  Ṡṡẛ  Şş  Ṣṣ  Ṩṩ  Șș  S̩s̩  ᵴ  ᶊ  ʂ  ȿ  ꜱ  Ｓｓ  ſ  ẞß  stſt

Symbol

S

1. (chemistry) Chemical symbol for sulfur.
2. (metrology) symbol for siemens, a measure of electrical conductance.
3. (metrology) symbol for spat (obsolete astronomical unit of distance).
4. (metrology) symbol for svedberg (unit of sedimentation rate in ultracentrifugation).
5. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for serine
6. (geology) symbol for storativity
7. (thermodynamics) entropy

   ${\displaystyle \mathrm {d} S={\frac {\delta Q}{T}}}$ (entropy change associated with heat transfer)

8. (mathematics, topology) sphere
9. (mathematics, computer science) The S ("substitution") combinator, defined as Sxyz = xz(yz), used in SKI calculus
10. (linguistics) A wildcard for a sibilant; or sometimes ambiguously for a stop, fricative, sonorant or semivowel
11. (usually clothing) small (the manufactured size)

    Coordinate terms: XXS, XS, M, L, XL, XLT, XXL, XXXL

Gallery

• Letter styles
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  Uppercase and lowercase versions of S, in normal and italic type
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  Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur, with long and short s in lower case

See also

Character=S

Other representations of S:

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

S

1. (Stenoscript) the sound sequence /st/ in a word, e.g. it's the transcription of the suffix -ist.
2. (Stenoscript) the prefix sub-

   [some manuals advise lower-case s for the prefix sub-]

3. (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of south.
4. (education) Initialism of satisfactory.

Etymology 3

From the first letter of set and of stage, two fundamental concepts of the theory.

Letter

S

1. The forth letter in the Afar alphabet.

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ɛs/

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

S (plural S's, diminutive S'ie)

1. S

Letter

1. Stokoe notation of of 𝤃𝪜

Letter

S upper case (lower case s)

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es̺e/, [e̞.s̺e̞]

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The twentieth letter of the Basque alphabet, called ese and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈe.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈe.se], [ˈes]

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Catalan alphabet, called essa, esse, or es and written in the Latin script.

Etymology

• /z/, /ʃ/ are from West Germanic *s.
• For the origin of /s/, see ß.

Pronunciation

• (German-based) /z/, (coda or doubled) /s/, (in initial sp, st) /ʃ/
• (Dutch-based) /s/

Letter

S

1. A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
2. A letter in the Dutch-based alphabet of Central Franconian.

Pronunciation 1

Pronunciation 2

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ɛs/

• Audio:

  (file)

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /so/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /s/

• Audio:

  (file)

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called so and written in the Latin script.

Noun

S

1. Abbreviation of sudo (“south”).

Pronoun

S

1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of ŝi (“she”).

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.

Etymology

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and S for information on the development of the glyph itself.

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called äs or es and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (letter) IPA^(key): /ɛs/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun

S

1. Abbreviation of sud; south

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) lettre; A a (À à,  â, Æ æ), B b, C c (Ç ç), D d, E e (É é, È è, Ê ê, Ë ë), F f, G g, H h, I i (Πî, Ï ï), J j, K k, L l, M m, N n (Ñ ñ), O o (Ô ô, Œ œ), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ù ù, Û û, Ü ü), V v, W w, X x, Y y (Ÿ ÿ), Z z

Noun

S

1. Abbreviation of sur (“south”).

Etymology

For the origin of the letter, see s.

Pronunciation

• (letter) IPA^(key): /ɛs/, [ʔɛs]

  • Audio:

    (file)

  • Homophones: ess, Es, es (last only when stressed, which is rare)
• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /z/, /s/, /ʃ/ (see etymology section)

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the German alphabet, called es and written in the Latin script.
   • 1877, Dr. Schröer, “Gelegentliche Bemerkungen über erhöhte Ansprüche, die nun an die Aufzeichnung mundartlicher Sprachproben zu stellen wären”, in Die deutschen Mundarten. Zeitschrift für Dichtung, Forschung und Kritik. Herausgegeben von Dr. G. Karl Frommann. Siebenter Band (neuer Folge erster Band), page 15:

     Für die zweierlei S, das scharfe ß und das weiche, tönende s, sind die Zeichen s und ſ zu empfehlen. Letzteres wird im Französischen, Englischen, Holländischen, Polnischen, Madjarischen mit z bezeichnet, das wir nicht annehmen können, weil bei uns, wie schon bemerkt, z den Laut ts bezeichnet.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Noun

S

1. Abbreviation of Süd; south

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (phoneme):

  (file)

Letter

S

1. The thirtieth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.

Letter

S (lower case s)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

S (lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ɛs/

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Further reading

• “S” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (letter name) IPA^(key): /ˈɛs.se/
  • Rhymes: -ɛsse
• (phonemic realization, between vowels) IPA^(key): /z/, /s/
• (phonemic realization, when followed by a voiceless consonant) IPA^(key): /s/
• (phonemic realization, when followed by a voiced consonant) IPA^(key): /z/

Letter

S f or m (invariable, upper case, lower case s)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called esse and written in the Latin script.

Noun

S m

1. Abbreviation of sud; south

See also

• (Latin-script letters) lettera; A a (À à), B b, C c, D d, E e (É é, È è), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í, Ì ì, Πî, J j, K k), 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, Ù ù), V v (W w, X x, Y y), Z z
• Italian alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) エス [éꜜsù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [e̞sɨ]

Etymology 1

From English superior.

Etymology 2

From English small.

Etymology 3

From English sadism; compare English S&M.

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog S. Letter pronunciation is influenced by English S.

Pronunciation

• (letter name) IPA^(key): /ʔes/ [ʔes]
  • IPA^(key): (parts of Bauko, Sabangan, & Tadian) /ʔeh/ [ʔeh]
  • Rhymes: -es, (parts of Bauko, Sabangan, & Tadian) -eh
• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /s/ [s]
  • IPA^(key): (parts of Bauko, Sabangan, & Tadian) /h/ [h]

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Kankanaey alphabet, called es and written in the Latin script.

References

• Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (2016) Ortograpiya di Kankanaëy [Kankanaey Orthography]‎ (in Kankanaey and Tagalog), →ISBN, pages 10-11

Etymology

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

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

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

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. A letter in the Latin alphabet, representing the sound /s/

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): [s]

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Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called es and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (Name of letter) IPA^(key): [ɛs]
• (Phoneme) IPA^(key): [s]

Letter

S

1. The nineteenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Letter

S (lower case s)

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

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛs/

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Polish alphabet, called es and written in the Latin script.

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. (International Standard) The twenty-fourth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
2. (Pan-Vlax) The twenty-fifth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Romanian alphabet, called es, se, or sî and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

S

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s̪/

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet, written in the Latin script. It is preceded by r and followed by t. Its traditional name is suil (“willow”).

Etymology

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

Letter

S (upper case, lower case s)

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

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /s/

Letter

S (lower case s)

1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.