Dee
/diː/noun
The name of the letter D.
Did you know?The letter D ultimately descends from an ancient Semitic sign representing a door, called dalet or daleth, before becoming Greek delta and English dee.
Etymological Timeline
c. 1800–1500 BCE
Proto-Sinaitic
𐤃
“A pictographic sign associated with a door”
c. 1050 BCE
Phoenician
𐤃𐤋𐤕 (dalet)
“The letter-name meaning “door””
Ancient Greek
Greek
δέλτα (delta)
“The Greek name for the corresponding letter”
Old French
Old French
de
“The name of the letter D”
Middle English
English
dee
“The spoken name of the letter D”
Modern English
English
dee
“The name of the letter D”