a
/ə,ā/
determiner
- used when referring to someone or something for the first time in a text or conversation."a man came out of the room"
- used to indicate membership of a class of people or things."he is a lawyer"
- used when expressing rates or ratios; in, to, or for each; per."typing 60 words a minute"
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide.
The letter Å represents various sounds in several languages. It is a separate letter in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, North Frisian, Low Saxon, Transylvanian Saxon, Walloon, Chamorro, Lule Sami, Pite Sami, Skolt Sami, Southern Sami, Ume... Wikipedia
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a feminine singular ending of nouns borrowed from Latin and Greek, also used in New Latin coinages to Latinize bases of any origin, and as a Latin substitute ...