Etymology

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Today it means: The eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script. Full definition →

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r · character, numeral1

Old English lower case letter r, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case r of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚱ.

r · verb, determiner2

From are and our, pronounced like the name of the letter r.

R · character, numeral3

From the Etruscan letter 𐌓 (r, “er”), from the Ancient Greek letter Ρ (R, “rho”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤓 (r, “reš”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓁶.

R · noun, adjective, proper noun4

Abbreviations.

R · pronoun5

See I.

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