ampersand

Etymology
A mondegreen of, ⟨&⟩ being read as “and”. Letters used by themselves were formerly mentioned according to this pattern, as in “O per se O” for the particle O or “I per se I” for the pronoun I. “And per se and” thus meant ⟨&⟩ by itself, as opposed to forms such as The specific form ampersand is, originally as a mocking pronunciation spelling.

Noun

 * 1) The symbol "&".

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: وَاو اَللَّاتِينِيَّة
 * Basque: & ikurra
 * Bulgarian: амперсанд
 * Catalan: i comercial,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 和號
 * Czech:
 * Danish: og-tegn
 * Dutch: en-teken (also et-teken), ampersand
 * Esperanto: kaj-signo
 * Estonian: ja-märk
 * Finnish: et-merkki, ampersandi
 * French: esperluette, esperluète , perluète ; et commercial
 * Georgian: ამპერსანდი, ეთ-ნიშანი, კომერციული ეთი
 * German: Et-Zeichen, Kaufmanns-Und
 * Greek: συμπλεκτικό σύμβολο
 * Hebrew: אמפרסנד
 * Hindi: ऐंपरसैंड
 * Hungarian: és jel, et jel
 * Icelandic: táknið &; og-lykkja; tengilykkja; hlíðskipulykkja
 * Indonesian: tanda dan, ampersan
 * Interlingua: e commercial
 * Italian: e commerciale,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latvian: & zīme
 * Lithuanian: ženklas &
 * Macedonian: амперсанд
 * Maltese: u kummerċjali
 * Norman: ampèrsand, et
 * Norwegian: ampersand,
 * Polish: ; znak &; handlowe "i"
 * Portuguese:, sinal tironiano
 * Romanian: semnul & (și)
 * Russian:, знак конъю́нкции
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: амперсенд
 * Roman: ampersend,, pečatni znak, , labava veza
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: y comercial,
 * Swahili: ampasendi
 * Swedish: och-tecken (also ),
 * Turkish: ; ve imi
 * Vietnamese: ký hiệu "và"
 * Welsh: ampersand

Verb

 * 1)  To add an ampersand to.

Etymology
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