Œ
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title:
Œ
text:
Œ is a Latin alphabet grapheme, a ligature of o and e. In medieval and early modern Latin, it was used in borrowings from Greek that originally contained the diphthong οι, and in a few non-Greek words. These usages continue in English and French. In French, the words that were borrowed from Latin and contained the Latin diphthong written as œ now generally have é or è; but œ is still used in some non-learned French words, representing open-mid front rounded vowels, such as œil ("eye") and sœur (
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Ligature of the Latin letters O and E
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%92
date created:
2003-03-18T03:06:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T14:32:46Z
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