hooked-e

A form of hooked e — Synonym of e caudata.

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Meanings

noun
  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of hooked e.
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    Ideally, hooked-e would not be represented as , but since some of the early editions printed <ę> and , we were forced to follow them (fortunately, the total number of hooked-e characters was small). Editorial practice with regard to <ę> (variously, hooked-e, e-caudata or cedillated-e) is extremely inconsistent (Cain).

    2021 December 29, Mary Dockray-Miller, Michael D.C. Drout, Sarah Kinkade, Jillian Valerio, “The Author and the Authors of the Vita Ædwardi Regis: Women’s Literary Culture and Digital Humanities”, in Interface, number 8, page 177

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
e caudata
Cite this entry
APA

hooked-e. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hooked-e

MLA

“hooked-e.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hooked-e. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hooked-e,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hooked-e.

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