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ampersat

noun
/ˈæm.pə.sæt/UK/ˈæm.pɚ.sæt/US

Etymology

Blend of ampersand + at.

  1. inherited from *h₂éd✻ — “near, at”
  2. inherited from *at✻ — “at, near, to”
  3. inherited from *at✻
  4. inherited from æt — “at, near, by, toward”
  5. inherited from at
  6. compounded as ampersat — “ampersand + at”

Definitions

  1. The at sign (@).

    • Two weeks ago, Tim Nott asked what the @, the hub of the e-mail address, should be called. […] In the UK, Tim Gowens offered the highly logical "ampersat" and the art historian Frances Marks suggested "Van Gogh's ear".
    • […]there are users out there on the Internet right now who think that they possess an e-mail address containing neither an at-sign (@ often known as an "ampersat") nor a domain name.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ampersat. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA