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
Example sentences :
  • 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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