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GUIDE: Special latin characters within Europe (files.catbox.moe)

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[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Weird that France has both œ and æ. I only ever saw the latter in Nordic languages, but apparently it is occasionally used in French.

[-] Uruanna@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

æ is in purely Latin words like ex æquo, et cætera, or curriculum vitæ, that's all. œ appears in œil (eye) so you see that a lot more commonly already, but I can't think of any other word that uses it off the top of my head (beside other derivated words like œillères). (pardon the puns)

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

œuf and chœur as well, I suppose? Though I don't know if that is how they are commonly spelled

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 4 points 5 months ago

Œuvre too

[-] Uruanna@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

You're correct. Chœur is chorus and cœur is heart BTW.

[-] pedz@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

Sœur is pretty common too. And bœuf.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Which means that æ ends up also appearing in English in those same Latin words (although they're possibly more lax with alternate spellings).

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

It appears (but now rarely) in the very English and not at all Latin word encyclopædia.

[-] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Wikipedia gives examples of "curriculum vitæ" and "et cætera." We use those both as loanwords in English, but I've only seen it as the separate letters "ae," not the ligature æ.