v

Etymology 1
Minuscule variation of Latin, from seventh century Old Latin adoption of Old Italic letter , from letter.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-second letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Etymology 2
Lower case form of upper case roman numeral V, from abbreviation of IIIIΛ or IIIIV (representing 5), from tally stick markings resembling \\\\⋁ or ////⋀, from the practice of designating each fifth notch with a double cut, like the corresponding Western tally mark,.

Numeral

 * 1) cardinal number five (5).

Symbol

 * 1)  velocity
 * 2)  a.
 * 3)  -fricated release of a plosive (e.g., sometimes implying an affricate ); -coloring; or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic.

Etymology 1
From lower case letter  (also written ), from  lower case  and respelling of  between vowels and voiced consonants.
 * Rune-Feoh.png lower case  from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case  of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter, derived from Etruscan letter.
 * Rune-Ur.png lower case  from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case  of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter, derived from Raetic letter.

Before the 1700s, the pointed form was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form  was used elsewhere, regardless of sound. So whereas and  appeared as in modern printing,  and  were printed  and. Eventually, in the 1700s, to differentiate between the consonant and vowel sounds, the form was used to represent the consonant, and  the vowel sound. then preceded in the alphabet, but the order has since reversed.

Pronunciation

 * (spelled )
 * (spelled )

Noun

 * 1) a shape resembling the letter
 * The impact was so strong, it bent the bar into a v.

Usage notes

 * In legal contexts, usage is typically restricted to, and the pronunciation may be as , , , or , depending on the region and nature of the case.

Adverb

 * You were acting v rude to his boyfriend on New Year's.
 * You were acting v rude to his boyfriend on New Year's.

Etymology 4
Abbreviations.


 * 1)  the suffix or final syllable  or 
 * 1)  the suffix or final syllable  or 
 * 1)  the suffix or final syllable  or 

Usage notes

 * Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

Pronunciation

 * , (spelled );,  (spelled )
 * , (spelled );,  (spelled )

Etymology
,, from , from.

Preposition

 * 1) in (inside, for an enclosed space)
 * 2) at (indicating time)
 * 3) on (indicating a day)
 * 4) in (indicating a year)
 * 5) in (indicating a month)
 * 6) in (used after certain verbs)
 * 1) in (indicating a year)
 * 2) in (indicating a month)
 * 3) in (used after certain verbs)
 * 1) in (used after certain verbs)
 * 1) in (used after certain verbs)

Usage notes

 * The more usual form is v, while ve is used before words starting with f, v, w and certain consonant clusters.

Letter

 * 1) The twenty-second letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Letter

 * 1) the twenty-second letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet

Letter

 * 1)  The 20th letter of the Latin alphabet.

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




Pronunciation

 * With very few exceptions, this letter occurs only in borrowings.
 * With very few exceptions, this letter occurs only in borrowings.
 * With very few exceptions, this letter occurs only in borrowings.

Usage notes
is sometimes used as a substitute for in Hanyu Pinyin-based input systems. As a result, it occasionally appears in print as well, though this is nonstandard.

Etymology
,.

Letter

 * 1)  (letter)
 * 2)  (letter)

Usage notes

 * u and v were represented by a single character in Middle French, although scholars consider them to be separate letters both in terms of usage and in terms of pronunciation.

Letter

 * 1) The 22nd letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Etymology
, from.

Preposition

 * 1) in (inside, for an enclosed space) (followed by the locative case)
 * 2) in (used after certain verbs) (followed by the accusative case)

Letter

 * 1) The 28th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by  and followed by.

Preposition

 * 1)  in, at
 * 2)  to, into
 * 3)  on, in, at, during
 * 4)  in, during

Alternative forms

 * (uppercase)

Etymology 2
From.

Preposition

 * 1) (answering question where) (with locative) in, inside, at
 * 2) (answering question where to) (with accusative) to, into
 * 3) (indicating a day) (with accusative) on, in, at, during (in expressions concerning time)
 * 4) (indicating a month or period of time) (with locative) in, during

Letter

 * 1) the twenty-third (23rd) letter of the Spanish alphabet

Usage notes

 * The common letter names, as well as phrases like are used to distinguish the letter  from the letter . This is done because the two letters represent a single phoneme in modern Spanish, causing their traditional names  and  both to be pronounced as.

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 proper nouns, unadapted loanwords, or Spanish-based spellings.
 * Some purists of Tagalog replace v in words with.

Derived terms
There is a digraph for palatalized $⟨vy⟩$.