F
The sixth letter of the Latin alphabet, F developed from the digraph FH that stood for /f/.
The Etruscans were the inventors of this digraph; F on its own stood for /w/ in Etruscan as in Greek (where the letter F ? called Digamma in Greek ? has disappeared due to the fact that the /w/ phoneme itself disappeared.) The origin of F is the Semitic letter wâw that also represented /w/ and originally probably represented a hook or a club.
Foxtrot represents the letter F in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
Meanings for F
- In calendars, F is often an abbreviation for Friday, or for the month February.
- In chemistry, F is the symbol for fluorine.
- In education, F is a failing grade
- In financial securities, F is the stock symbol for Ford Motor Company
- In grammar, f is often an abbreviation for the female grammatical gender
- In information systems, F is often used as an abbreviation for the female sex in personal data records.
- In international licence plate codes, F stands for France.
- In the Metric system,
- F is the symbol for farad, the SI derived unit for electric capacitance.
- f, femto, is the SI prefix meaning 10-15.
- In music, F is a note.
- In physics, f often is the variable for frequency
- In radiocommunication, F is one of the ITU prefixes allocated to France.
- In temperature, ºF is degrees Fahrenheit.
Two-letter combinations starting with F: