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Translingual
Etymology
A cursive variation of ᾱ or ᾱᾱ, the abbreviation of Greek ἀνά (aná) used in recipes and prescriptions with the meaning "of each", and later extended to accounting. (Other explanations have that it is ā, an abbreviation of Latin ad (“to”), or French à (“to”).)
Symbol
@ (English symbol name at sign)
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address ("at" the domain name).
My e-mail address is psychonaut@example.com.
- At the rate of; per.
- 7 @ $2 = $14 ― seven, at two dollars each, are fourteen dollars
- (computing, IRC) The most common choice of configurable prefix symbol to identify a channel operator.
- (Internet) Prepended to the name of the user to whom a remark is addressed.
Bob: How can I stop other people from accessing my files when they use my computer?
Jack: @Bob, you need to protect the files with a password.
- (phonetics) A pulse of laughter. (Thus @@@ is the transcription equivalent of ha! ha! ha! or hee! hee! hee! etc. in conventional orthography.)
- (video games) In roguelike games, the player character, conventionally represented by this symbol in character-based interfaces.
While I was dealing with the hounds, an orc tracker stumbled across @ from the east.
See also
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Preposition
@
- At a rate of (so much each).
15 items @ $10
- @ 80 km/h ― at eighty kilometres per hour
- (informal) At (any sense).
- @ 20°C ― at twenty degrees Celsius
Text message: “im @ school.”
Translations
Verb
@ (third-person singular simple present @s, present participle @ing, simple past and past participle @ed)
- (Internet slang, transitive) To reply to or speak to someone, either online or face to face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name)
Honestly, don't @ me if you don't have anything nice to say.
He angrily @ed me after I made an innocent comment.
2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 2:She regularly tweets career updates and quirky jokes to her seventy thousand followers, but she rarely @s other people.
2024 October 10, Mehera Bonner, “The Levi's Shortalls Taylor Swift Can't Stop Wearing Are Still on Sale Post Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan:"you need to calm down" — my credit card @ me.
Usage notes
- Chiefly used in the phrase don't @ me. It can be used humorously when stated after an unpopular or ironic opinion, in order to forestall dissent.
See also
Etymology 2
Due to the fact that The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.
Symbol
@
- Forming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a.
- By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with o vs a.
See also
German
Pronunciation
Preposition
@
- (informal, Internet) regarding
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
Hebrew
Symbol
@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
Usage notes
The symbol is called כְּרוּכִית (krukhit, “strudel; at sign, @”), or sometimes colloquially שְׁטְרוּדֶל (“strudel; at sign, @”).
Hungarian
Symbol
@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
Usage notes
The symbol is called kukac (“worm”) in Hungarian because of its shape.
Japanese
Etymology 1
Symbol
@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
- (Internet slang) used to attach a qualifier to someone's name
- cosMo@暴走P
- cosMo@BōsōP
- cosMo@Bōsō-P
- てさぐれ!部活もの
- ドンチキ田中@イケメン大好き
- Donchiki Tanaka@Ikemen daisuki
- Donchiki Tanaka@I Love Hot Men
Usage notes
The symbol is called 単価記号 (tankakigō), アットマーク (atto māku), or アット (atto).
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Particle
@ • (atto)
- at a rate of
- 500 @ 5円
- gohyaku atto go-en
- 500 items at 5 yen each
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Particle
@ • (de)
- (Internet slang) Alternative form of で (de, “at”, indicating a location at which something happens)
Etymology 4
Pronunciation
Particle
@ • (ato)
- (slang, gaming) Alternative form of あと (ato, “remaining”)
- @ 5 個
- ato go ko
- five items remaining
- @ 1時間で寝る
- ato ichi-jikan de neru
- I'll go to bed in an hour
Malagasy
Preposition
@
- (informal) Abbreviation of amin'ny.
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Symbol
@
- the symbol for the arroba unit of weight
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English @.
Symbol
@
- (now chiefly proscribed) gender-neutral replacement for masculine -o or -e and feminine -a
@s alun@s = {os alunos, as alunas}- the students
est@ usuári@ = {este usuário, esta usuária}- this user
Usage notes
- @ and -x have been gradually displaced by -e as gender-neutral suffixes in favor of users of text-to-speech and people with reading disorders.
Russian
Symbol
@
- @
Usage notes
Serbo-Croatian
Symbol
@
- @
Usage notes
The sign has several possible names:
- et
- manki (Croatian)
- луда »а« (luda »a«, literally “crazy ‘a’”) (Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- мајмун (majmun) (Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Spanish
Etymology
Due to the fact that The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.
Symbol
@
- the symbol for the arroba unit of weight and volume
- (informal) a replacement for o or e and a, to include both masculine and feminine forms
l@s alumn@s = {los alumnos, las alumnas}- the students
est@ usuari@ = {este usuario, esta usuaria}- this user
2000, Onofre Ricardo Contreras Jordán, La formación inicial y permanente del profesor de educación física, Univ de Castilla La Mancha, →ISBN, page 131:Deberá el/la tutor/a orientar, reconducir y resolver las mil y una dudas que se plantean l@s alumn@s en el prácticum ya sea I, II o III, en sus diferentes actuaciones docentes, en cuanto a evaluación, niveles de dificultad parámetros que evaluar y un largo etc […]- The tutor must guide, redirect and resolve the thousand and one doubts that students have in the practicum, whether I, II or III, in their different teaching activities, in terms of evaluation, levels of difficulty, parameters to be evaluated and a broad
Swedish
Symbol
@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
Usage notes
The symbol is called snabel-a (“elephant's trunk A”) in Swedish because of its shape. Less formally it is also known as kanelbulle (“cinnamon roll”) or alfakrull (“alpha curl”)
Turkish
Symbol
@ (et işareti)
- her biri (“each”)