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Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A cursive variation of ᾱ or ᾱᾱ, the abbreviation of Greek ἀνά (aná) used in recipes and prescriptions with the meaning "of each", and later extended to accounting. (Other explanations have that it is ā, an abbreviation of Latin ad (“to”), or French à (“to”).)
Symbol
[edit]@ (English symbol name at sign)
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address ("at" the domain name).
- My e-mail address is psychonaut@example.com.
- At the rate of; per.
- 7 @ $2 = $14(that is, seven, at two dollars each, are fourteen dollars).
- (computing, IRC) The most common choice of configurable prefix symbol to identify a channel operator.
- (Internet) Prepended to the name of the user to whom a remark is addressed.
- Bob: How can I stop other people from accessing my files when they use my computer?
Jack: @Bob, you need to protect the files with a password.
- Bob: How can I stop other people from accessing my files when they use my computer?
- (phonetics) A pulse of laughter. (Thus @@@ is the transcription equivalent of ha! ha! ha! or hee! hee! hee! etc. in conventional orthography.)
- (video games) In roguelike games, the player character, conventionally represented by this symbol in character-based interfaces.
- While I was dealing with the hounds, an orc tracker stumbled across @ from the east.
See also
[edit]- English: at sign
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (stressed) enPR: ăt, IPA(key): /æt/ ("at")
Audio (US): (file) - (unstressed) IPA(key): /ət/
- (Northern US, rare) IPA(key): /ˈitʃæt/ ("each at")
- Rhymes: -æt
- Homophone: at
Etymology 1
[edit]Preposition
[edit]@
- at a rate of (so much each)
- 15 items @ $10
- @ 80 km/h ― at eighty kilometres per hour
- (informal) at (any sense)
- @ 20°C ― at twenty degrees Celsius
- Text message: “im @ school.”
Translations
[edit]Verb
[edit]@ (third-person singular simple present @s, present participle @ing, simple past and past participle @ed)
- (Internet slang) To reply to or talk to someone, either online or face to face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name)
- Honestly, don't @ me if you don't have anything nice to say.
- He angrily @ed me after I made an innocent comment.
- 2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 2:
- She regularly tweets career updates and quirky jokes to her seventy thousand followers, but she rarely @s other people.
Usage notes
[edit]Chiefly used in the phrase don't @ me. It can be used humorously when stated after an unpopular or ironic opinion, to forestall dissent.
Alternative forms
[edit]See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Due to the fact that @ resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.
Symbol
[edit]@
- Forming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a.
- By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with o vs a.
See also
[edit]German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]@
- (informal, Internet) regarding
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
Hebrew
[edit]Symbol
[edit]@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
Usage notes
[edit]The symbol is called כְּרוּכִית (krukhit, “strudel; at sign, @”), or sometimes colloquially שְׁטְרוּדֶל (“strudel; at sign, @”).
Hungarian
[edit]Symbol
[edit]@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
Usage notes
[edit]The symbol is called kukac (“worm”) in Hungarian because of its shape.
Japanese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Symbol
[edit]@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
- (Internet slang) used to attach a qualifier to someone's name
- cosMo@暴走P
- cosMo@BōsōP
- cosMo@Bōsō-P
- てさぐれ!部活もの
- ドンチキ田中@イケメン大好き
- Donchiki Tanaka@Ikemen daisuki
- Donchiki Tanaka@I Love Hot Men
- ドンチキ田中@イケメン大好き
- cosMo@暴走P
Usage notes
[edit]The symbol is called 単価記号 (tankakigō), アットマーク (atto māku), or アット (atto).
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Particle
[edit]- at a rate of
- 500 @ 5円
- gohyaku atto go-en
- 500 items at 5 yen each
- 500 @ 5円
Etymology 3
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Particle
[edit]Etymology 4
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Particle
[edit]- (slang, gaming) Alternative form of あと (ato, “remaining”)
- @ 5 個
- ato go ko
- five items remaining
- @ 1時間で寝る
- ato ichi-jikan de neru
- I'll go to bed in an hour
- @ 5 個
Malagasy
[edit]Preposition
[edit]@
- (informal) Abbreviation of amin'ny.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Symbol
[edit]@
- the symbol for the arroba unit of weight
Etymology 2
[edit]Symbol
[edit]@
- (now chiefly proscribed) gender-neutral replacement for masculine -o or -e and feminine -a
- @s alun@s = {os alunos, as alunas}
- the students
- est@ usuári@ = {este usuário, esta usuária}
- this user
Usage notes
[edit]- @ and -x have been gradually displaced by -e as gender-neutral suffixes in favor of users of text-to-speech and people with reading disorders.
Russian
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[edit]@
Usage notes
[edit]- This symbol is called эт (et), лягу́шка (ljagúška), обезья́нка (obezʹjánka), соба́ка (sobáka), or комме́рческое «эт» (kommérčeskoje «et»).
Serbo-Croatian
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[edit]@
Usage notes
[edit]The sign has several possible names:
- et
- manki (Croatian)
- луда »а« (luda »a«, literally “crazy ‘a’”) (Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- мајмун (majmun) (Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Due to the fact that @ resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.
Symbol
[edit]@
- the symbol for the arroba unit of weight and volume
- (informal) a replacement for o or e and a, to include both masculine and feminine forms
- l@s alumn@s = {los alumnos, las alumnas}
- the students
- est@ usuari@ = {este usuario, esta usuaria}
- this user
- 2000, Onofre Ricardo Contreras Jordán, La formación inicial y permanente del profesor de educación física, Univ de Castilla La Mancha, →ISBN, page 131:
- Deberá el/la tutor/a orientar, reconducir y resolver las mil y una dudas que se plantean l@s alumn@s en el prácticum ya sea I, II o III, en sus diferentes actuaciones docentes, en cuanto a evaluación, niveles de dificultad parámetros que evaluar y un largo etc […]
- The tutor must guide, redirect and resolve the thousand and one doubts that students have in the practicum, whether I, II or III, in their different teaching activities, in terms of evaluation, levels of difficulty, parameters to be evaluated and a broad […]
Swedish
[edit]Symbol
[edit]@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
Usage notes
[edit]The symbol is called snabel-a (“elephant's trunk A”) in Swedish because of its shape. Less formally it is also known as kanelbulle (“cinnamon roll”) or alfakrull (“alpha curl”)
Turkish
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[edit]@ (et işareti)
- her biri (“each”)
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