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maine | d |

As a noun maine

is mania.

As a letter d is

the fourth letter of the.

As a numeral d is

cardinal number five hundred (500).

As a symbol d is

deuterium, when it needs to be distinguished from ordinary hydrogen.

maine

English

Etymology 1

Apprently from the name of the Celtic tribe the aulerci cenomanni, who inhabited a territory centered around its capital city of , today le Mans (a corruption of Cenomannis to *Celmans'' to ''Le Mans ).

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A province in northwest France, centred on the city of Le Mans.
    • Derived terms
    * Bas-Maine * Haut-Maine * Mainiot * mainiot * Mainiote * mainiote

    Etymology 2

    From the (etyl) province

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The northeasternmost state of the United States of America, the capital of which is Augusta.
  • A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
  • A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
  • A town in Broome County, New York.
    • Derived terms
    * Mainer * ME

    Etymology 3

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A river, a tributary of the Loire, in the Maine-et-Loire in France.
    • See also
    * Maine-et-Loire *

    External links

    * * *

    Anagrams

    * ----

    d

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=c, next=e, image= (wikipedia d)

    Etymology 1

    Modification of capital letter D, from (etyl) letter .

    Letter

  • The fourth letter of the .

    • Usage notes

    The letter d is used in the alphabets of many languages, and in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the (.

    See also

    (Latn-script) * (select similar letters and symbols) * (other scripts) * See

    Etymology 2

    Lower case form of upper case roman numeral D, a standardization of D or notch.

    Alternative forms

    * D,

    Numeral

  • cardinal number five hundred (500).
    • Usage notes
    With a bar over the numeral, i.e., as d, it represents five hundred thousand (500,000).
    See also
    * Lesser roman numeral symbol: * Greater roman numeral symbol: *

    Etymology 3

    Symbol

    (Voiced alveolar plosive) (head)
  • the (path-independent, ) differential of a quantity
  • voiced alveolar plosive

    • See also

    * (mathematics) {{Letter , page=D , NATO=Delta , Morse=-ยทยท , Character=D4 , Braille=? }} Image:Latin D.png, Capital and lowercase versions of D , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter D.png, Uppercase and lowercase D in Fraktur Image:Uncial d.png, Approximate form of upper case letter D in uncial script that was the source for lower case d ----