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Webster 1913 Edition

P

P

(pē)
,
the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant whose form and value come from the Latin, into which language the letter was brought, through the ancient Greek, from the Phœnician, its probable origin being Egyptian. Etymologically P is most closely related to b, f, and v; as hobble, hopple; father, paternal; recipient, receive. See
B
,
F
, and
M
.
See Guide to Pronunciation , §§ 247, 248, and 184-195.

Webster 1828 Edition

P

P

is the sixteenth letter of the English Alphabet, and a labial articulation formed by a close compression of the anterior part of the lips, as in ep. It is convertible into b and f, sometimes into v.
This letter is found int he oriental languages, from which it was received into the Greek and Latin; except however the Arabic, which has not this letter, and the Arabians cannot easily pronounce it. In some words which we have borrowed from the Greek, p is mute, as in psalm, ptisan; but is not silent in English words, unless it may be in receipt, and a few irregular words. P aspirated or followed by h, represents the Greek, which answers to the English f, as in philosophy.
As an abbreviation, P. stands for Publius, pondo, &c. P.A. DIG for patricia dignitas; P.C. for Patres Conscripti; P.F. for Publius Fabius; P.P. for propositum publice; P.R. for populus Romanus; P.R.S. for praetoris sententia; P.R.S.P. for praeses provinciae.

P

.M. stands for post meridiem, afternoon.
As a numeral, P, like G, stands for one hundred, and with a dash over it, for four hundred thousand.
Among physicians, P. Stands for pugil, or the eighth part of a handful; P.AE. For partes aequales, equal parts of the ingredients; P.P. for pulvis patrum, or the Jesuits bark in powder; and ppt. For praeparatus, prepared.

Definition 2024

P

P


P U+0050, P
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P
← O
[U+004F] 		Basic Latin Q →
[U+0051]
See also: p and Appendix:Variations of "p"

Translingual

Letter

P upper case (lower case p)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

Symbol

P

  1. (chemistry) symbol for phosphorus
  2. (metrology) symbol for peta-
  3. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for proline
  4. (mathematics) probability
    P(A) is the probability of A occurring
  5. (physics) power
  6. (computer science) class of problems solvable in polynomial time

See also

Other representations of P:

English

Letter

P ‎(upper case, lower case p, plural Ps or P's)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.
See also

Number

P ‎(upper case, lower case p)

  1. The ordinal number sixteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Abbreviations.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʰiː/
  • Rhymes: -iː

Noun

P ‎(plural Ps)

  1. park
  2. phone
  3. pager
  4. passenger
  5. (chess) Pawn.
  6. (slang, chiefly US) A "pure" form of an illegal drug, especially heroin.
    • 2009, Dr Kerry Spackman, The Winner's Bible:
      P directly targets the dopamine pathways in your brain and as a result goes straight to your pleasure/reward module, which makes it an incredibly hard drug to break free from.
  7. (slang, New Zealand) methamphetamine
    • 2011, New Zealand Herald, 6 May 2011:
      Almost 70kg of pre-cursor drugs that could be used to manufacture $20 million of P have been seized by police and customs officers.

Proper noun

P

  1. (computing theory) The set of all problems that are solvable in polynomial time by a deterministic Turing machine
Related terms

American Sign Language

Letter

‎(Stokoe P)

  1. The letter P

Azeri

Letter

P upper case (lower case p)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Chinese

Etymology

Derived from English photoshop.

Pronunciation

Verb

P

  1. (Internet) to photoshop

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /peː/

Letter

P ‎(capital, lowercase p)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

  • Previous letter: O
  • Next letter: Q

Esperanto

Letter

P ‎(upper case, lower case p)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called po and written in the Latin script.

See also

Finnish

Letter

P ‎(upper case, lower case p)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

See also

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peː/

Letter

P ‎(upper case, lower case p)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the German alphabet.

German Sign Language

Etymology

Related to the French Sign Language sign for "P".

Production

This one-handed GSL sign is produced as follows:

  • Posture the dominant hand in the “P” shape.

Letter

  1. the letter P

Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p/

Letter

P ‎(lower case p)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Italian

Pronunciation

  • (name of letter) IPA(key): /pi/
  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /p/

Letter

P m, f ‎(invariable, lower case p)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called pi and written in the Latin script.

See also

Latvian

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [p]

Letter

P

P ‎(upper case, lower case p)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called pē and written in the Latin script.

See also

Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): [pi]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA(key): [p]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA(key): [p̚]

Letter

P

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Portuguese

Letter

P ‎(upper case, lower case p)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pe/

Letter

P (capital, lowercase p)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /p/. Preceded by O and followed by R.

Saanich

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p/

Letter

P

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /p/

Letter

P ‎(lower case p)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Slovene

Letter

P ‎(capital, lowercase p)

  1. The 17th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by O and followed by R.

Spanish

Letter

P ‎(upper case, lower case p)

  1. The 17th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

Turkish

Letter

P ‎(upper case, lower case p)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

See also

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [pe˧˧/, /ˀɓe˧˧ fəːɰ˧˩/, /pəːɰ˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [pej˧˧/, /ˀɓej˧˧ fəːɰ˧˩/, /pəːɰ˧˧]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [pej˧˥/, /ˀɓej˧˥ fəːɰ˨˦/, /pəːɰ˨˩]
  • Phonetic: pê, bê phở, pờ

Letter

P ‎(upper case, lower case p)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called pê, bê phở or pờ and written in the Latin script.

See also

p

p


p U+0070, p
LATIN SMALL LETTER P
← o
[U+006F] 		Basic Latin q →
[U+0071]
See also: P and Appendix:Variations of "p"

Translingual

Letter

p lower case (upper case P)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

Other representations of P:

Pronunciation

Symbol

p

  1. (IPA) voiceless bilabial plosive
  2. (physics) pressure

English

Letter

p ‎(lower case, upper case P, plural p's)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.
See also

Number

p ‎(lower case, upper case P)

  1. The ordinal number sixteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

  • (page, per): p.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /piː/

Abbreviation

p

  1. post, meaning after
  2. Music symbol for piano (play softly)
  3. page (plural pp)
  4. (Britain) penny; pence.
    • 2001, Steve Webb, Intensity-modulated radiation therapy
      The 25p stamp shows an ultrasound image, the 35p stamp shows a magnetic resonance image and the 41p stamp shows an X-ray CT image.
  5. (knitting) purl
    • 1855, Godey's Magazine (volume 51, page 71)
      Knit 3, p 1, k 2, purl 1, k 2, m 1, k 2 together, k 1.
  6. (Internet) pretty (as an intensifier)
    I'm doing p good, how are you?
    • 1992 October 20, Peter Yee <yeeatlas.arc.nasa.gov>, "NASA Daily News for 10/13/92 (Forwarded)", message-ID <1992Oct20.091605.29223@news.arc.nasa.gov>, sci.space.news, Usenet :
      The searches will use radio telescope antennas to "listen" to stars for non-random radio noise P much like someone tuning a radio listens for a station between the static.
    • 1995 November 8, Scott Morgan <s_morgandelphi.com>, "Re: F-18 Sim", message-ID <hZMk7Re.s_morgan@delphi.com>, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim, Usenet :
      There is no campaign, just a bunch of canned missions that have no relation to each other (and peole[sic] think SU27 is p bad!).
  7. Abbreviation of per.
Translations
page
  • Greek: σ. f ‎(s.)
  • Scottish Gaelic: td

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923: looked · head · called · #186: p · Lord · de · whole

Azeri

Letter

p lower case (upper case P)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eː
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /peː/

Letter

p ‎(lower case, upper case P)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

  • Previous letter: o
  • Next letter: q

Egyptian

Noun

p
Z1

masculine

  1. mat

Inflection

Declension
sing. p
dual pwj
plural pw

Noun

p
S

masculine

  1. plinth

Inflection

Declension
sing. p
dual pwj
plural pw

Proper noun

p
O49

feminine

  1. Pe, a city in Lower Egypt, where the Pharaohs were crowned.

References

Faulkner, A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Letter

p ‎(lower case, upper case P)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called po and written in the Latin script.

See also

Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʰ/

Letter

p ‎(upper case P)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Finnish

Pronunciation

Abbreviation

p

  1. penni (Finnish penny, no longer used)

Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p/

Letter

p ‎(upper case P)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Italian

Noun

p m, f ‎(invariable)

  1. See under P

Latin

Abbreviation

p

  1. Publius
  2. populus

Letter

p

  1. The letter of the Latin alphabet, written in the Latin script.

References

  • P in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • p in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Latvian

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [p]

Letter

P

p ‎(lower case, upper case P)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called pē and written in the Latin script.

See also

Livonian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /p/

Letter

p ‎(upper case P)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Malay

Letter

p ‎(lower case, upper case P)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Norwegian

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /peː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /p/

Letter

p

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Portuguese

Letter

p ‎(lower case, upper case P)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pe/

Letter

p ‎(lowercase, capital P)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet, written in the Latin script. Representing the phoneme /p/. Preceded by o and followed by r.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • (uppercase) P

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /p/

Letter

p ‎(Cyrillic spelling п)

  1. The 22nd letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by o and followed by r.

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /p/

Letter

p ‎(upper case P)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /p/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /pe/

Letter

p ‎(lower case, upper case P)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Turkish

Letter

p ‎(lower case, upper case P)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

See also

Turkmen

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /p/

Letter

p ‎(upper case P)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

See also

Etymology

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