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.

   • 2017 July 20, Thu-Huong Ha, “Germany has ended a century-long debate over a missing letter in its alphabet”, in Quartz‎^[1]:

     In German, the ß character is called eszett. It’s used in “Straße,” the word for street, and in the expletive “Scheiße.” It’s often transliterated as “ss,” and strangely enough, it’s never had an official uppercase counterpart.

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