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"Œ", "œ" is a vowel and a letter used in medieval and early modern Latin, and in modern French. The origin of the letter is a ligature for " O E". The character is also referred to by the name eðel, pronounced edh-@l.

The combination denotes a diphthong, IPA [oe], that had a value similar to English "OI". It was used in borrowings from Greek words having the diphthong "OI" ("ΟΙ"). Both classical and modern practice is to write the letters separately, but the ligature was used in medieval and early modern writings, in part because "Œ" was reduced to a simple long vowel (IPA [e:]) in late Latin.

In German " Öor is a letter, representing a vowel, in the Finnish, Swedish, Icelandic, Estonian, Hungarian and Turkish alphabets. It also appears in the German alphabet, where it represents " O" with umlaut, and is alphabetized together with "O". In English, it design" is the equivalent.

Borrowings into English from Latin words featuring "Œ" are often spelled "E", especially in American EnglishAmerican English or US English (en-US according to RFC 3066) is the diverse form of the English language used mostly in the United States of America. It is the primary language used in the United States. According to the 1990 census, 97 percent of U.. For example, foederal became federal in English, while foetus became fetus only in American English.

In French, "œ" has a purely aesthetic use, most prominent in the words cœur ("heart") and sœur ("sister"). While printed documents should ideally use œ systematically whenever "e" folllows "o" and is not marked with a diaresis, this usage is not always respected. WritingWriting is the process of inscribing characters on a medium, with the intention of forming words and other larger language constructs. The instrument or instruments used for recording, and the medium on which the recording is done can be almost infinite, never makes the distinction between "oe" and "œ".

The symbol "œ" is also used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for a rounded open-mid front vowel. The small capital variant, i. e. ɶ (U+0276), stands for another vowel, a rounded open front one.

For computers, when using the Unicode character set, the codes for "Œ" and "œ" are respectively 338 and 339, or 152 and 153 in hexadecimal. In HTML, you can also use the HTML character entity references Œand œ.

See also: Æ, Ö, Ø