Antonyms for j
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : jey |
| Phonetic Transcription : dʒeɪ |
Definition of j
Origin :- the letter is a late modification of Roman -i-, originally a scribal creation in continental Medieval Latin to distinguish small -i- in cursive writing from the strokes of other letters, especially in the final positions of words. But in English, -y- was used for this, and -j- was introduced c.1600-1640 to take up the consonantal sound that had evolved from -i- since Late Latin times. This usage first was attested in Spanish, where it was in place before 1600. English dictionaries continued to lump together words beginning in -i- and -j- until 19c., and -j- formerly was skipped when letters were used to express serial order.
- Used in modern writing to represent Latin -i- before a, e, o, u in the same syllable, which in Latin was sounded as the consonant in Modern English you, yam, etc., but the custom is controversial among Latinists:
- The character J, j, which represents the letter sound in some school-books, is an invention of the seventeenth century, and is not found in MSS., nor in the best texts of the Latin authors. [Lewis]
- As in hightail : verb run
- A heavy flywheel, J, is now fitted to the inside end of the crankshaft.
- Extract from : « Boys' Book of Model Boats » by Raymond Francis Yates
- There are twenty-four j's in it, and seventeen g's, so you may imagine that it is difficult.
- Extract from : « Five Mice in a Mouse-trap » by Laura E. Richards
- (j) When battery is more than a year old and action is not satisfactory.
- Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte
- The head (J) of a screw projects from the base at its rear end.
- Extract from : « Electricity for Boys » by J. S. Zerbe
- Below were some indefinite initials, a J, and an N, and a T.
- Extract from : « Madge Morton's Secret » by Amy D. V. Chalmers
- J The original is extremely confused in the preceding passages.
- Extract from : « New observations on the natural history of bees » by Francis Huber
- The soft g, as in gin, is here represented by j, but in the MSS.
- Extract from : « A Handbook of the Cornish Language » by Henry Jenner
- No one has done it with v and j treated as consonants; but you and I can do it.
- Extract from : « Over the Teacups » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Miss T. J don't get so many dances that I shall confuse them.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Gadsby » by Rudyard Kipling
- In fact, he assured the mess that he, alone, was a match for "J" Company.
- Extract from : « Life in a Tank » by Richard Haigh
Synonyms for j
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