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A

• Adj. – adjective
• Adv. – adverb
• AHD – American Heritage Dictionary
• archaic – The definition is no longer in general use, but still found in some contemporary texts (eg, the Bible). Examples: thee and thou (for you). Generally understood by educated people, but rarely used in current texts or speech. Compare with obsolete and dated . This definition is currently under active debate in Wiktionary:Obsolete and archaic terms

B

• b.g.c. – (not used in articles) books.google.com
• BP – the Beer Parlour discussion forum for general policy discussions and proposals, requests for permissions and major announcements.
• BTW – By the way (Internet slang phrase)

C

• c. – circa or about – often used in dates of quotations.
• c – of common gender, such nouns may be of male or female gender without changing their form.
• cat, category – a system for categorising or grouping entries.
• CFI – Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion.
• CGEL – Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.
• clitic pronoun - a weak pronoun; a pronoun of one syllable which is dependent on another word and cannot be used on its own. Compare with emphatic or strong.
• CSS – Cascading Style Sheets, used in creating web pages.
• colloquial – (deprecated template usage) used in conversational speech or informal writing, but usually not in formal speech or writing, such as "lots of". (Not to be confused with slang, non-standard.)

D

• dat - the dative case.
• dated – still in use, but generally only by older people, and considered unfashionable or superseded, particularly by younger people. Examples: wireless (in sense "broadcast radio tuner"), groovy, gramophone, gay (in the senses of "bright", "happy", etc.) Compare with obsolete and archaic This definition is currently under active debate in Wiktionary:Obsolete and archaic terms

E

• ed. – editor – often used in quotations.
• ELE - Entry layout Explained, the style guide for Wiktionary.
• emphatic pronoun -

English: a reflexive pronoun (eg yourself) used for emphasis (eg you must do it yourself.)

Greek: a structurally independent personal pronoun, in contrast with weak or clitic prounouns.

• en – English
• est – Estonia, Estonian

F

• f – of feminine gender
• FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
• FL, fl – foreign language
• fpl – feminine plural
• Fr – French

H

• historical – Use dated. Means included for historical information; the thing it refers to is not in current use or no longer exists. (e.g. blueshirt, or Czechoslovakia). Compare with obsolete and Archaic.

This definition is currently under active debate in Wiktionary:Obsolete and archaic terms

I

• idiom – A phrase which has a meaning apparently unconnected with the individual words that make it up. E.g. to come a cropper.
• IMO, IMHO – In My Opinion, In My Honest Opinion (Internet slang phrase).
• inflection – the change in form of a word to represent a change in tense etc. In English an example would be run, runs, ran and running. In highly inflected languages such as Latin there will be many more forms. See also: (1) Conjugation and (2) Declension.
• IPA – International Phonetic Alphabet.

J

• JS – JavaScript

L

• lemma – the headword or citation form of an inflected word, especially the form found in a bilingual dictionary. This is usually, for verbs: the infinitive or the present tense, first person singular; and for nouns: the nominitive singular. (In linguistics the word is sometimes used in a sense which includes this definition plus all the inflections cf lexeme).
• lemmata – plural of lemma.
• lexeme – roughly: the set of inflections of a word (cf lemma). See also: (1) Wikipedia on lexeme, (2) Wiktionary:Languages with more than one grammatical gender, (3) Conjugation and (4) Declension.

M

• m – of masculine gender
• mpl – masculine plural

N

• n – of neuter gender
• nl – Netherlands, Dutch
• nonce – said of a term that was coined for a particular utterance
• NPOV – "Neutral Point of View". (Articles are meant to be written from a NPOV, not from a POV or particular Point Of View.)

O

• obs, obsolete – indicates a term no longer in use, no longer likely to be understood. Compare with archaic and dated. This definition is currently under debate in Wiktionary:Obsolete and archaic terms
• OED – Oxford English Dictionary. Also SOED (Shorter), OED1 (1st edition), OED2 (2nd edition), NOED (New).
• OTOH – On the other hand (Internet slang phrase)

P

• p. – post or after, often used in quotations.
• phrase – Sometimes called a "set phrase", a string of words which have a special meaning. In other words, if one of the words in the phrase is changed for another word of similar meaning, the entire phrase is altered. Flight simulator is a phrase because it has a special meaning that flying simulator doesn't. Cf idiom
• pl – plural
• pluralia tantum – nouns with no singular form – see Category:English_pluralia_tantum
• POS – Part(s) of Speech. (POS) is a placeholder which can be replaced with any of the approved POS headers.
• POV – "Point of View"

  Articles are meant to be written from a Neutral Point of View (NPOV), not from a POV – particular point of view

R

• RfC – Request for clean-up, see WT:RFC
• RfD – Request for deletion, see WT:RFD
• RfV – Request for verification, see WT:RFV
• romanisation/romanization – a particular form of transliteration, where a non-Roman script is converted into the Roman one. (eg συγγνώμη → singnómi).
• RT(F)M – Read the (fucking) manual.
• rv – Revert to prior content.
• rvv – Revert Vandalism.

S

• s – singular
• SAMPA – SAMPA, a set of systems for representing the phonemes of various languages in plain ASCII text.

  Not to be confused with X–SAMPA, the system for representing the full IPA in plain ASCII text.

• SIL – SIL International, formerly the Summer Institute of Linguistics; home of Ethnologue, and official registrar of the ISO 639 three-letter language codes (such as en for English).
• strong pronoun - (Greek) an emphatic pronoun.
• sv – Svenska, Swedish.

T

• tr., tran. – translator or translated, often used in quotations.
• transliteration – the conversion of text in one script into an equivalent in another script. This may include the conversion of diacritical marks into alternate forms without diacritical marks (e.g., Mörder → Moerder).

U

• UK – UK English, i.e. The English of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the British Isles excluding the Irish Republic).
• UTC – Coordinated Universal Time

W

• weak pronoun – a pronoun of one syllable which is dependent on another word and cannot be used on its own; sometimes called clitic. Compare with emphatic or strong.
• wheel war – A struggle between two or more admins in which each undoes the other's admin actions — in particular, unblocking and reblocking a user; undeleting and redeleting, or unprotecting and reprotecting an article.
• wikify, wfy – to create wikilinks and/or to format in accordance with Wiktionary's standards.

X

• X-SAMPA – Extended SAMPA, a system for representing the full IPA in plain text.