&

See also: -&, , and Appendix:Variations of "et"

& U+0026, &
AMPERSAND
%
[U+0025]
Basic Latin '
[U+0027]
U+FE60, ﹠
SMALL AMPERSAND

[U+FE5F]
Small Form Variants
[U+FE61]
U+FF06, &
FULLWIDTH AMPERSAND

[U+FF05]
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
[U+FF07]
🙴 U+1F674, 🙴
HEAVY AMPERSAND ORNAMENT
🙳
[U+1F673]
Ornamental Dingbats 🙵
[U+1F675]
🙵 U+1F675, 🙵
SWASH AMPERSAND ORNAMENT
🙴
[U+1F674]
Ornamental Dingbats 🙶
[U+1F676]

Translingual

Ampersand evolution.
The roman ampersand at left is stylized, but the italic one at right reveals its origin in the Latin word et.

Glyph origin

A stylized form of Latin et (and). Romans used such symbols (ligatures) from at least the first century C.E., but the character may not have acquired its present form until the advent of calligraphy in the Middle Ages. Compare and +, of same meaning and similar derivation.

Conjunction

& (siglum)

  1. Abbreviation of and.

Symbol

&

  1. (programming) Used in some programming languages for different purposes.
    1. Dereferencing memory address.
    2. Bitwise "and" operator.
  2. (networking) In a URL, separates each field-value pair of a query string .
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Synonyms

Derived terms

See also


English

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Latin &

Conjunction

& (siglum)

  1. Abbreviation of and.
    • 2011, David Almond, The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean, Candlewick Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 121:
      “Welcum to McCaufreys, Billy Dean” he says. “Make yorself at home & hav a pie.”
  2. (dated) Abbreviation of et in borrowed Latin phrases such as et cetera.

Derived terms

Translations


Catalan

Conjunction

& (siglum)

  1. Abbreviation of i.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /e/
  • (file)
  • (file)

Conjunction

&

  1. (siglum) Abbreviation of et.

Italian

Conjunction

& (siglum)

  1. Abbreviation of e.
  2. Abbreviation of ed.
  3. (dated) Abbreviation of et.

Japanese

Particle

&(アンド) (ando)  (siglum)

  1. Abbreviation of アンド.

Latin

Conjunction

& (siglum)

  1. Abbreviation of et; historically a scribal abbreviation of et.

Derived terms

Letter

& (siglum)

  1. Scribal abbreviation of et.

Portuguese

Conjunction

& (siglum)

  1. Abbreviation of e.

Spanish

Conjunction

& (siglum)

  1. Abbreviation of y.
  2. Abbreviation of e.

Swedish

Conjunction

& (siglum)

  1. Abbreviation of och.
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