f

Etymology
Modification of upper case Latin letter, from Greek , from Phœnician , the ultimate source being probably Egyptian.

Letter

 * 1) The sixth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

 * 1)  forte
 * 2)  a voiceless labiodental fricative.
 * 3)  -fricated release of a plosive (e.g., sometimes implying an affricate ); -coloring; or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic.
 * 4)  frequency
 * 5)  focal length
 * 6)  feminine gender

Etymology 1
lower case letter, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter.

Pronunciation



 * See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 178, 179, 188, 198, 230 in the 1913 Webster dictionary
 * See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 178, 179, 188, 198, 230 in the 1913 Webster dictionary
 * See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 178, 179, 188, 198, 230 in the 1913 Webster dictionary

Usage notes
as a verb.

Etymology 2
Abbreviations.



Derived terms

 * F clef (the bass clef. See under clef)

Noun

 * 1)  Folio, paper and book size (10"-12.5" x 15"-20")

Translations

 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: nn.
 * Marathi: स्त्रीलिंग
 * Russian:

Usage notes

 * Used only in loanwords.

Usage notes

 * Used only in loanwords.

Etymology 2
German musical notation.

Noun

 * 1)  F note

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.

Letter




Usage notes
The letter F/f (like H/h, and O/o representing [o], [oː] instead of [uə̯]) is found only in words of foreign origin (borrowings).

Usage notes
In Norwegian runic inscriptions from 17-19 centuries this letter is usually written as ᚠ.

Pronunciation

 * , or if voiced

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by  and followed by . Its traditional name is .

Adverb

 * 1) ; pm, p.m.

Letter

 * 1) The 10th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by  and followed by.

Preposition

 * 1)  in, at (location)
 * 2)  to, into (direction)
 * 3)  on, in, at, during (time)
 * 4)  in, during (time)

Etymology 1
From Gaj's Latin alphabet, from alphabet , which is a modification of upper case Latin letter , from Greek  letter , derived from the  letter , from the  hieroglyph. Pronunciation as is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from.

Pronunciation

 * Phoneme


 * Letter name

Symbol

 * 1)  Phonetic transcription of sound [].

Inflection

 * First pronunciation


 * Second pronunciation


 * More common when with a definite adjective


 * First pronunciation, dialectal, in common written language used till 19th century

Etymology 2
From, an abbreviation for , from , probably from , from.

Etymology 3
A dialectal variant of made by analogy to / in dialects where [] turned into [] and got its devoiced part, [].

Pronunciation

 * Noramlly


 * Otside usual context

Preposition

 * 1)  into, in
 * 2)  in, at
 * 1)  in, at

Usage notes
This variant of preposition is used only before words that start with a devoiced consonant and binds to the syllable of the following word or geminates [] if the following word starts with it.

Etymology
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.

Usage notes

 * This letter is mostly used only in Spanish-based spellings, proper nouns, or unadapted loanwords.
 * Some purists of Tagalog replace f in words with.

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by  and followed by .