eszett

See also: Eszett

English

Etymology

From German Eszett, from the names of the letters S and Z which make up its blackletter form.

Noun

eszett (plural eszetts)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter ẞ/ß.

   Synonyms: double S, sharp s

   • 1997, Matthew Piepenburg, Time and the Maiden, →ISBN, page 62:

     In fits of concealed despair that went unnoticed even by those close enough to touch, Julien cursed the language of umlauts, eszetts, and gerunds.

Translations

a German letter

• Dutch: ringel-s (nl) m
• Esperanto: esceto, sozo
• Finnish: kaksois-s
• French: eszett (fr) m
• German: Eszett (de) n, scharfes S n
• Japanese: エスツェット (ja) (esutsetto)
• Korean: 에스체트 (eseucheteu)
• Portuguese: eszett m
• Russian: эсце́т m (escét), эс-це́т (ru) m (es-cét)

Anagrams

• tsetze, tzetse