long i (English, noun)
expansion: long i (plural long i's)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: the English vowel sound /aɪ/ in the words "fine" and "like", conventionally written ⟨ī⟩.
topics: biology
epigraphy
geography
history
human-sciences
literature
media
natural-sciences
palaeography
paleogeography
paleography
paleontology
publishing
sciences
glosses: a tall variant of the letter i, ⟨ꟾ⟩, used in all-capital Latin inscriptions and manuscripts in classical antiquity and the Early Middle Ages for a long vowel /iː/. (Other long vowels were marked with apices.)
Forms:
form: long i's
tags: plural