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Translingual
Etymology
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”).)
Use to create gender-neutral spellings of Spanish and Portuguese words is due to the fact that @ resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.
Symbol
@ (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.)
See also
- English: at sign
English
Pronunciation
- (stressed) enPR: ăt, IPA(key): /æt/ ("at")
- (unstressed) IPA(key): /ət/
- (Northern US, rare) IPA(key): /itʃæt/ ("each at")
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æt
- Homophone: at
Preposition
@
Translations
Verb
@ (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
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
Symbol
@
See also
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛt/
Audio (file)
Hebrew
Symbol
@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
Usage notes
The symbol is called כְּרוּכִית (krukhit, “strudel; at sign, @”), or sometimes colloquially שְׁטְרוּדֶל (“strudel; at sign, @”).
Hungarian
Symbol
@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
Usage notes
The symbol is called kukac (“worm”) in Hungarian because of its shape.
Japanese
Symbol
@
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [a̠t̚to̞]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [de̞]
Particle
@ • (de)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [a̠to̞]
Malagasy
Preposition
@
- (informal) Abbreviation of amin'ny.
Portuguese
Russian
Usage notes
- This symbol is called эт (et), лягу́шка (ljagúška), обезья́нка (obezʹjánka), соба́ка (sobáka), or комме́рческое «эт» (kommérčeskoje «et»).
Serbo-Croatian
Spanish
Symbol
@
- 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
Symbol
@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
Usage notes
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”)