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3. (Linguistics / Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) a digraph in Latin representing either a native diphthong, as in æquus, or a Greek αι (ai) in Latinized spellings, as in æschylus: now usually written ae, or e in some words, such as demon
4. (Linguistics / Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) a ligature used in Old and early Middle English to represent the vowel sound of a in cat
5. (Linguistics / Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) a ligature used in modern phonetic transcription also representing the vowel sound a in cat


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