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Translingual
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Etymology
A cursive variation of grc ᾱ or grc ᾱᾱ, the abbreviation of Greek grc ἀνά 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 la ad to, or French fr à to.)
Symbol
at sign
At the rate of; per.
mul 7 @ $2 $14 seven, at two dollars each, are fourteen dollars
mul computing The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address ("at" the domain name).
en My e-mail address is psychonaut@example.com.
mul computing In IRC, denotes the most common choice of configurable prefix symbol to identify a channel operator.
mul Internet Prepended to the name of the user to whom a remark is addressed.
en 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.
mul phonetics A pulse of laughter. (Thus @@@ is the transcription equivalent of ha! ha! ha! or hee! hee! hee! etc. in conventional orthography.)
mul video games In roguelike games, denotes the player character, conventionally represented in character-based interfaces.
en While I was dealing with the hounds, an orc tracker stumbled across @ from the east.
mul chemistry In chemical formulae, denotes trapped atoms in endohedral fullerenes (endofullerenes).
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Further reading
at sign
English
Pronunciation
en strong form:
en /æt/
en en-us-at.ogg US
en æt 1
en weak form:
en /ət/
en it<q:some accents>
en at
Etymology 1
Preposition
prep
At a rate of (so much each).
en 15 items @ $10
en @ 80 km/h at eighty kilometres per hour
en informal At (any sense).
en @ 20°C at twenty degrees Celsius
en Text message: “im @ school.”
en 2024-10-10 Mehera Bonner The Levi's Shortalls Taylor Swift Can't Stop Wearing Are Still on Sale Post Prime Day w:Cosmopolitan https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a62566583/taylor-swift-levi-shortalls-amazon-sale/ "you need to calm down" — my credit card @ me. https://web.archive.org/web/20260402212637/https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a62566583/taylor-swift-levi-shortalls-amazon-sale/ 2 April 2026
Translations
at a rate of
Catalan: ca a
Danish: da à
Dutch: nl à
German: de à
Hungarian: hu à
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb à
Swedish: sv à
Verb
en 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
en Honestly, don't @ me if you don't have anything nice to say.
en He angrily @ed me after I made an innocent comment.
en 2023 R. F. Kuang Yellowface The Borough Press 2 She regularly tweets career updates and quirky jokes to her seventy thousand followers, but she rarely @s other people.
Usage notes
Chiefly used in the phrase en don't @ me. It can be used humorously when stated after an unpopular or ironic opinion, in order to forestall dissent.
Noun
en Internet slang The permanent handle of a user which follows @, chiefly on Twitter.
en What your @?
Alternative forms
en at#Verb at
See also
at sign
en @ party
en @mention
Etymology 2
en
Symbol
sym
en genderForming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a.
en Chican@, Filipin@, Latin@, Mestiz@
By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with o vs a.
en Kosov@; Pin@y
See also
x
Etymology 3
en ms @, abbreviation of en ms atau or.
Symbol
sym
en Singapore Malaysia Connecting a person's common name and alias, both of them are legal names.
en Tan Cheng Bock @ Adrian Tan
Conjunction
en conjunction
en Malaysia informal or
en Apples @ oranges
German
Pronunciation
de /ɛt/
de De-@.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Preposition
de preposition
de informal online regarding
de
Hebrew
Symbol
he symbol
sv he computing The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
Usage notes
The symbol is officially called he כְּרוּכִית krukhit strudel; at sign, @, or colloquially he שְׁטְרוּדֶל strudel; at sign, @.
Hungarian
Symbol
hu symbol
sv hu 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 hu kukac worm in Hungarian because of its shape.
Japanese
Etymology 1
Symbol
symbol
sv ja computing The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
ja internet slang used to attach a qualifier to someone's name
cosMo@暴%走%P cosMo@^ぼう%そう%P cosMo@Bōsō-P
ja てさぐれ!部活もの てさぐれ!部活もの
ドンチキ田%中@イケメン大%好き ^ドンチキ ^た%なか@^イケメン だい%すき Donchiki Tanaka@I Love Hot Men
Usage notes
The symbol is called 単%価%記%号 たん%か%き%ごう, アット マーク or アット.
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
アット
Particle
particle アット
at a rate of
500 @ 5%円 ごひゃく アット ご-%えん 500 items at 5 yen each
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
で
Particle
particle で
ja internet slang ja で de at indicating a location at which something happens
Etymology 4
Pronunciation
あと
Particle
particle あと
ja slang gaming ja あと ato remaining
@ 5 個 あと ご こ five items remaining
@ 1%時%間 で 寝る あと いち-%じ%かん で ねる I'll go to bed in an hour
Malagasy
Preposition
mg preposition
mg informal mg amin'ny
Malay
Symbol
ms symbol
ms atau
ms Epal @ oren Apples or oranges
ms Singapore Malaysia Connecting a person's common name and alias, both of them are legal names.
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Symbol
pt symbol
the symbol for the pt arroba unit of weight
Etymology 2
pt :bor en:@<id:gender> + 1
Symbol
pt symbol
pt mainly proscribed gender-neutral replacement for masculine pt -o or pt -e and feminine pt -a
pt -x -e
pt @s alun@s = {os alunos, as alunas} the students
pt est@ usuári@ = {este usuário, esta usuária} this user
Russian
Symbol
ru symbol
sv mul @
Usage notes
This symbol is called ru эт, ru лягу́шка, ru обезья́нка, ru соба́ка, or ru комме́рческое «эт».
Serbo-Croatian
Symbol
sh symbol
sv mul @
Usage notes
The sign has several possible names:
mul et
sh manki Croatian
sh луда »а« crazy ‘a’ luda »a« Serbia Montenegro Bosnia and Herzegovina
sh мајмун majmun Serbia Montenegro Bosnia and Herzegovina
Spanish
Pronunciation
arroba +
Etymology 1
Symbol
es symbol
sv en @ (at sign)
the symbol for the es arroba unit of weight and volume
Etymology 2
Due to the fact that es
Symbol
es symbol
es-genderes informal a replacement for es o or es e and es a, to include both masculine and feminine forms
es l@s alumn@s = {los alumnos, las alumnas} the students
es est@ usuari@ = {este usuario, esta usuaria} this user
es 2000 Onofre Ricardo Contreras Jordán La formación inicial y permanente del profesor de educación física Univ de Castilla La Mancha 9788484270829 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
es Spanish gender-neutral suffixes
Swedish
Symbol
sv symbol
sv sv 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 sv snabel-a elephant's trunk A in Swedish because of its shape. Less formally it is also known as sv kanelbulle cinnamon roll or sv alfakrull alpha curl
Turkish
Symbol
tr symbol et işareti
tr her biri each