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S vs Optimate - What's the difference?

s | optimate |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun optimate is

(historical) a member of the patrician ruling class in republican ancient rome; an aristocrat, a noble.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    optimate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A member of the patrician ruling class in republican Ancient Rome; an aristocrat, a noble.
  • *2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 23:
  • *:Over the same decade, the upper stratum of Visigothic society, the optimates gradually lost their influence.