Noun: zê
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like zê
egocentrismo,
lantanídeo,
lantanídio,
miligrama,
flash card,
decímetro,
fingimento,
mililitro,
parassuicídio,
algómetro,
ancoradouro,
ancoradoiro,
escândalo,
sereio,
sereno,
sestro,
seguro,
senado,
enlatamento,
Dezembro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Latin zeta, reduced by analogy with the many other letters that end with the /e/ sound (such as bê and vê). Compare English zee (from zed), Galician zeta, and Spanish zeta.
2. Portuguese and (American) English are the only languages in which Z is not called zeta or some variation thereof, with a biphonemic (two-sound) short form being used instead. See: Latin Nouns '
zeta', Latin Nouns '
zeta', English Nouns '
zee', Galician Nouns '
zeta', Spanish Nouns '
zeta'.
Verbs referencing "zê"
English Nouns
zed.
Translations