em

Etymology 1
Attested since 1808. In typography, the em is named after the (later called ), from, a metal type used in letterpress typesetting, which is as wide as the point size of the font.

Noun

 * 1)  A unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
 * 1)  A unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
 * 1)  A unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
 * 1)  A unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.

Translations

 * Arabic: إِم
 * Bengali: এম
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Greek: έμ
 * Hawaiian: mū
 * Hindi: एम्,
 * Ido:
 * Irish: eim, muin
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 엠
 * Latin:
 * Malay: em
 * Marathi: एम
 * Occitan: èma
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: em
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ем
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Welsh: em


 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Hungarian: betűnégyzet,
 * Spanish: cuadratín
 * Swedish:, fyrkantsvärde, Åp-höjd


 * Italian:

Etymology 3
Coined by Christine M. Elverson by removing the "th" from, perhaps influenced by the pre-existing /, now often perceived as apheretic forms of them (though originally unrelated).

Pronoun

 * 1) * 2023, Aimee Ogden, “A Half-Remembered World”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 145, no. 1-2, whole no. 768 (July/August 2023), pages 146-202
 * “You idiot girl! Are you childsick?” She grabbed Asu’s wrist; Asu made no effort to twist away. “Sand and soil, tell me you’re not pregnant. Is it that—what’s eir name? Aeran? Have you lain with em? Tell me!”
 * 1) * 2023, Aimee Ogden, “A Half-Remembered World”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 145, no. 1-2, whole no. 768 (July/August 2023), pages 146-202
 * “You idiot girl! Are you childsick?” She grabbed Asu’s wrist; Asu made no effort to twist away. “Sand and soil, tell me you’re not pregnant. Is it that—what’s eir name? Aeran? Have you lain with em? Tell me!”
 * 1) * 2023, Aimee Ogden, “A Half-Remembered World”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 145, no. 1-2, whole no. 768 (July/August 2023), pages 146-202
 * “You idiot girl! Are you childsick?” She grabbed Asu’s wrist; Asu made no effort to twist away. “Sand and soil, tell me you’re not pregnant. Is it that—what’s eir name? Aeran? Have you lain with em? Tell me!”
 * “You idiot girl! Are you childsick?” She grabbed Asu’s wrist; Asu made no effort to twist away. “Sand and soil, tell me you’re not pregnant. Is it that—what’s eir name? Aeran? Have you lain with em? Tell me!”

Synonyms

 * see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns

Derived terms

 * emself

Etymology 4
Compare um.

Interjection

 * 1)  a form of hesitant speech, or an expression of uncertainty; um; umm; erm
 * ''She was abused by, em... David, I think. That was his name, he's a real em... what's the word, narcissist. You should really stay away from him.

Etymology
, from.

Pronoun

 * 1) me (direct or indirect object)

Usage notes

 * The normal reduced form is (also spelt ). The further reduction is used especially after prepositions.

Etymology 4
From

Preposition

 * 1)  around

Etymology
Akin to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) medicine

Etymology
From.

Usage notes

 * Multiple Latin names for the letter, have been suggested. The most common is  or a  , although there is some evidence which also supports, as names for the letter, , , , and even (in the fourth- or fifth-century first Antinoë papyrus, which gives Greek transliterations of the Latin names of the Roman alphabet’s letters).

Etymology 2
Fossilised (2nd person singular) imperative of.

Interjection

 * 1) of wonder or emphasis, there!

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Etymology 1
, from, from.

Noun

 * 1)  (brother of one's parents)
 * 2)  progenitor, forefather
 * 3)  nephew (son of one's sibling)
 * 1)  nephew (son of one's sibling)

Pronoun

 * 1) we; us (first-person plural personal pronoun)

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) your (second-person, singular, possesive pronoun)

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) an uncle, mother's brother

Etymology
From "am"; a form of the verb, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,.

Verb

 * 1) I am,  (meaning "to be")

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Article

 * : the

Pronoun

 * : him, to him
 * : it, to it

Etymology
From, from , from , from. .

Preposition

 * 1)  in; inside; within contained by
 * 2)  on; on top of located just above the surface of
 * 3)  in; at located in a location
 * 4)  in part of; a member of
 * 5)  in; into; inside towards the inside of
 * 6)  in pertaining to the particular thing
 * 7)  in immediately after a period of time
 * 8)  in; during within a period of time
 * 9)  at; in in a state of
 * 10)  in indicates means, medium, format, genre or instrumentality
 * 11)  in indicates a language, script, tone etc. of writing, speaking etc.
 * 12)  in wearing
 * 1)  in pertaining to the particular thing
 * 2)  in immediately after a period of time
 * 3)  in; during within a period of time
 * 4)  at; in in a state of
 * 5)  in indicates means, medium, format, genre or instrumentality
 * 6)  in indicates a language, script, tone etc. of writing, speaking etc.
 * 7)  in wearing
 * 1)  in; during within a period of time
 * 2)  at; in in a state of
 * 3)  in indicates means, medium, format, genre or instrumentality
 * 4)  in indicates a language, script, tone etc. of writing, speaking etc.
 * 5)  in wearing
 * 1)  in indicates a language, script, tone etc. of writing, speaking etc.
 * 2)  in wearing
 * 1)  in wearing
 * 1)  in wearing

Usage notes
When followed by an article, a pronoun, a demonstrative pronoun or adjective, em is combined with the next word to give the following combined forms:

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, etc.

Noun

 * 1) medicine

Etymology
, from.

Conjunction

 * 1) not only … but also

Noun

 * 1) pm (indicating hours in the afternoon);

Usage notes

 * Since the 1960s, Sweden primarily uses the 24 hour clock, making am/pm abbreviations unnecessary and less common

Etymology
From, the English name of the letter /.

Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) The third person singular pronoun refers to a person or thing other than the speaker or the person being spoken to. Pronouns in Tok Pisin are not inflected for different cases.

Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) he/she/it (third-person singular pronoun)

Etymology
From, from ; cognate with 🇨🇬.

According to Phan Kế Bính's Việt Nam phong tục (1915), apparently the practice of calling each other -em for those in relationship originated from the province of Quảng Nam:

Noun

 * 1) a younger sibling
 * 2) a cousin who is descended from an ancestor who is/was a younger sibling to oneself's or one's spouse's (such as a child of a younger sibling of one of one's parents or a grandchild of a younger sibling of one of one's grandparents)
 * 3) a person younger than oneself but of the same generation
 * 4)  a child or a student
 * 1) a person younger than oneself but of the same generation
 * 2)  a child or a student
 * 1)  a child or a student

Usage notes
Textbooks tend to assume grade schoolers and middle schoolers to be young enough to be called, but high schoolers to be old enough to be called and.

Adjective

 * 1) small; smaller