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Œ œ Œ œ Œ (minuscule: œ) is a Latin alphabet grapheme, a ligature of o and e. In medieval and early modern Latin, it was used to represent the Greek diphthong ''οι'', a usage which continues in English and French. In French, it is also used in some non-Latin words. It is used in the modern orthography for Old West Norse and is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the open-mid front rounded vowel. In English runology, œ is used to transliterate the Runic letter 20x16px, and so œ is sometimes called œthel, oethel or ethel (from ''ēðel'' 'estate, ancestral home').〔John R. Clark Hall, 1962, ''A concise Anglo-Saxon dictionary'', Cambridge University Press, p. 108, s.v. ēðel 'name of the rune for œ'.〕 == Overview == In Latin, the combination denotes a diphthong, pronounced (:oi̯), that had a value similar to English ''oi'' as in c''oi''l. It was used in borrowings from Greek words having the diphthong ''OI'' (''ΟΙ'', ''οι''). Both classical and modern practice is to write the letters separately, but the ligature was used in medieval and early modern writings, in part because ''œ'' was reduced to a simple vowel () in late Latin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Œ」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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