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eszett en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from German Eszett, from the names of the letters S and Z which make up its blackletter form.

Meanings

1. The name of the Latin script letter ẞ/ß.
   • In fits of concealed despair that went unnoticed even by those close enough to touch, Julien cursed the language of umlauts, eszetts, and gerunds. 1997, Matthew Piepenburg, Time and the Maiden, →ISBN, page 62:
   • In German, the ß character is called eszett. It’s used in “Straße,” the word for street, and in the expletive “Scheiße.” It’s often transliterated as “ss,” and strangely enough, it’s never had an official uppercase counterpart. […] At a 1903 typography conference, attendees decided that they would use lowercase eszett and substitute “SZ” for uppercase instances of the letter, until they could figure out a proper design for it. 2017 July 20, Thu-Huong Ha, “Germany has ended a century-long debate over a missing letter in its alphabet”, in Quartz, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2019:

Forms

Synonyms

double S · sharp s

Translations (13)

ja エスツェット (a German letter) · ko 에스체트 (a German letter) · ru эсце́т (a German letter) · pt eszett (a German letter) · bg есцет (a German letter) · fr eszett (a German letter) · nl ringel-s (a German letter) · fi kaksois-s (a German letter) · eo esceto (a German letter) · de scharfes S (a German letter) · de Eszett (a German letter) · eo sozo (a German letter) · ru эс-це́т (a German letter)