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{{also|Appendix:Variations of "a"|Appendix:Variations of "at"}}
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==Translingual==
{{wikipedia|At sign}}

===Etymology===
A [[cursive]] variation of {{lang|grc|ᾱ}} or {{lang|grc|ᾱᾱ}}, the abbreviation of [[Greek]] {{m|grc|ἀνά}} used in recipes and prescriptions with the meaning "of each", and later extended to accounting. (Other explanations have that it is ''ā,'' an abbreviation of Latin {{m|la|ad||to}}, or French {{m|fr|à||to}}.)

===Symbol===
{{mul-symbol|name=at sign}}

# {{lb|mul|computing}} The symbol used as a [[separator]] between a [[username]] and a [[domain name]] in an e-mail address ("at" the domain name). <!--as opposed to an URL, where it is a redirect operator, or ...(enter 3,000 other delimiter uses here)-->
#: {{ux|en|My e-mail address is psychonaut'''@'''example.com.}}
# At the rate of; [[per]].
#: {{uxi|mul|7 '''@''' $2 {{=}} $14|seven, '''at''' two dollars each, are fourteen dollars}}
# {{lb|mul|computing|[[IRC]]}} The most common choice of configurable [[prefix]] symbol to identify a [[channel]] [[operator]].
# {{lb|mul|Internet}} Prepended to the name of the [[user]] to whom a remark is addressed.
#: {{ux|en|''Bob:'' How can I stop other people from accessing my files when they use my computer?<br>''Jack:'' '''@'''Bob, you need to protect the files with a password.}}
# {{lb|mul|phonetics}} A pulse of laughter. ({{ng|Thus ''@@@'' is the transcription equivalent of ''ha! ha! ha!'' or ''hee! hee! hee!'' etc. in conventional orthography.}})
# {{lb|en|video games}} In [[roguelike]] games, the [[player character]], conventionally represented by this symbol in character-based interfaces.
#: {{ux|en|While I was dealing with the hounds, an orc tracker stumbled across '''@''' from the east.}}

====See also====
* English: {{l|en|at sign}}

==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{qualifier|stressed}} {{enPR|ăt}}, {{IPA|en|/æt/}} ("at")
* {{audio|en|en-us-at.ogg|a=US}}
* {{qualifier|unstressed}} {{IPA|en|/ət/}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈitʃæt/|a=Northern US,rare}} ("each at")
* {{rhymes|en|æt|s=1}}
* {{homophones|en|at}}

===Etymology 1===

====Preposition====
{{en-prep}}

# [[at|At]] a rate of (so much each).
#: {{ux|en|15 items '''@''' $10}}
#: {{uxi|en|'''@''' 80 km/h|at eighty kilometres per hour}}
# {{lb|en|informal}} [[at|At]] (any sense).
#: {{uxi|en|'''@''' 20°C|at twenty degrees Celsius}}
#: {{ux|en|Text message: “im '''@''' school.”}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|at a rate of}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|à}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|à}}
* German: {{t+|de|à}}
* Norwegian: {{t+|nb|à}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|à}}
{{trans-bottom}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|Internet slang|transitive}} To reply to or speak to someone, either online or face to face. {{q|from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @''name''}}
#: {{ux|en|Honestly, don't '''@''' me if you don't have anything nice to say.}}
#: {{ux|en|He angrily '''@ed''' me after I made an innocent comment.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2023|author={{w|R. F. Kuang}}|title=[[w:Yellowface (novel)|Yellowface]]|publisher=The Borough Press|page=2|passage=She regularly tweets career updates and quirky jokes to her seventy thousand followers, but she rarely '''@'''s other people.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2024-10-10|author=Mehera Bonner|title=The Levi's Shortalls Taylor Swift Can't Stop Wearing Are Still on Sale Post Prime Day|journal=w:[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]|url=https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a62566583/taylor-swift-levi-shortalls-amazon-sale/|passage="you need to calm down" — my credit card '''@''' me.}}

====Usage notes====
* Chiefly used in the phrase {{m|en|don't @ me}}. It can be used humorously when stated after an unpopular or ironic opinion, to forestall dissent.

====Alternative forms====
* {{l|en|at#Verb|at}}

====See also====
* [[at sign]]
* {{l|en|@ party}}

===Etymology 2===
Due to the fact that {{-a-o-@|en}}

====Symbol====
{{en-symbol}}

# {{senseid|en|gender}}{{n-g|Forming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine ''-o'' and feminine ''-a''.}}
#: {{co|en|[[Chican@]], [[Filipin@]], [[Latin@]], [[Mestiz@]]}}
# {{n-g|By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with ''o'' vs ''a''.}}
#: {{co|en|[[Kosov@]]; [[Pin@y]]}}

====See also====
* [[x#en-gender|x]]

==German==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|de|/ɛt/}}
* {{audio|de|De-@.ogg}}

===Preposition===
{{head|de|preposition}}

# {{lb|de|informal|online}} [[regarding]]
#: {{rfquote-sense|de}}

==Hebrew==

===Symbol===
{{head|he|symbol}}

# {{lb|he|computing}} The symbol used as a [[separator]] between a [[username]] and a [[domain name]] in an e-mail address.

====Usage notes====
The symbol is called {{m|he|כְּרוּכִית|tr=krukhit|gloss=[[strudel]]; [[at sign]], [[@]]}}, or sometimes colloquially {{m|he|שְׁטְרוּדֶל|gloss=[[strudel]]; [[at sign]], [[@]]}}.

==Hungarian==

===Symbol===
{{head|hu|symbol}}

# {{lb|hu|computing}} The symbol used as a [[separator]] between a [[username]] and a [[domain name]] in an e-mail address.

====Usage notes====
The symbol is called {{m|hu|kukac||worm}} in Hungarian because of its shape.

==Japanese==

===Etymology 1===

====Symbol====
{{ja-pos|symbol}}

# {{lb|ja|computing}} The symbol used as a [[separator]] between a [[username]] and a [[domain name]] in an e-mail address.
# {{lb|ja|internet slang}} {{n-g|used to [[attach]] a [[qualifier]] to someone's name}}
#: {{ja-usex|[[w:ja:cosMo|cosMo'''@'''暴%走%P]]|cosMo'''@'''^ぼう%そう%P|cosMo'''@'''Bōsō-P}}
#* {{lw|ja|てさぐれ!部活もの|てさぐれ！部活もの}}
#*: {{ja-usex|ドンチキ田%中'''@'''イケメン大%好き|^ドンチキ ^た%なか'''@'''^イケメン だい%すき|Donchiki Tanaka'''@'''I Love Hot Men}}

=====Usage notes=====
The symbol is called {{ja-r|単%価%記%号|たん%か%き%ごう}}, {{ja-r|アット マーク}}{{,}} or {{ja-r|アット}}.

===Etymology 2===

====Pronunciation====
{{ja-pron|アット}}

====Particle====
{{ja-pos|particle|アット}}

# at a rate of
#: {{ja-usex|500 '''@''' 5%円|ごひゃく '''アット''' ご-%えん|500 items '''at''' 5 yen '''each'''}}

===Etymology 3===

====Pronunciation====
{{ja-pron|で}}

====Particle====
{{ja-pos|particle|で}}

# {{lb|ja|internet slang}} {{alternative form of|ja|で|tr=de||at|pos=indicating a location at which something happens}}

===Etymology 4===

====Pronunciation====
{{ja-pron|あと}}

====Particle====
{{ja-pos|particle|あと}}

# {{lb|ja|slang|gaming}} {{alternative form of|ja|あと|tr=ato||remaining}}
#: {{ja-usex|'''@''' 5 個|'''あと''' ご こ|five items '''remaining'''}}
#: {{ja-usex|'''@''' 1%時%間 で 寝る|'''あと''' いち-%じ%かん で ねる|I'll go to bed '''in''' an hour}}

==Malagasy==

===Preposition===
{{head|mg|preposition}}

# {{lb|mg|informal}} {{abbreviation of|mg|amin'ny}}

==Portuguese==

===Etymology 1===

====Symbol====
{{head|pt|symbol}}

# {{n-g|the symbol for the {{m|pt|arroba}} unit of weight}}

===Etymology 2===
{{bor+|pt|en|@|id=gender}}.

====Symbol====
{{head|pt|symbol}}

# {{lb|pt|now|mainly|proscribed}} {{n-g|gender-neutral replacement for masculine {{m|pt|-o}} or {{m|pt|-e}} and feminine {{m|pt|-a}}}}
#: {{ux|pt|@s alun@s &#61; {os alunos, as alunas}|the students}}
#: {{ux|pt|est@ usuári@ &#61; {este usuário, esta usuária}|this user}}

=====Usage notes=====
* {{m|pt|@}} and {{m|pt|-x}} have been gradually displaced by {{m|pt|-e}} as gender-neutral suffixes in favor of users of text-to-speech and people with reading disorders.

==Russian==

===Symbol===
{{head|ru|symbol}}

# {{l|mul|@}}

====Usage notes====
* This symbol is called {{m|ru|эт}}, {{m|ru|лягу́шка}}, {{m|ru|обезья́нка}}, {{m|ru|соба́ка|}}, or {{m|ru|[[коммерческий|комме́рческое]] «[[эт]]»}}.

==Serbo-Croatian==

===Symbol===
{{head|sh|symbol}}

# {{l|mul|@}}

====Usage notes====
The sign has several possible names:
* {{l|mul|et}}
* {{l|sh|manki}} {{qualifier|Croatian}}
* {{m|sh|луда »а«||lit=crazy ‘a’|tr=luda »a«}} {{qualifier|Serbia|Montenegro|Bosnia and Herzegovina}}
* {{m|sh|мајмун|tr=majmun}} {{qualifier|Serbia|Montenegro|Bosnia and Herzegovina}}

==Spanish==

===Etymology===
Due to the fact that {{-a-o-@|es}}

===Symbol===
{{head|es|symbol}}

# {{n-g|the symbol for the {{m|es|arroba}} unit of [[weight]] and [[volume]]}}
# {{anchor|es-gender}}{{lb|es|informal}} {{n-g|a replacement for {{m|es|o}} or {{m|es|e}} and {{m|es|a}}, to include both masculine and feminine forms}}
#: {{ux|es|l@s alumn@s &#61; {los alumnos, las alumnas}|the students}}
#: {{ux|es|est@ usuari@ &#61; {este usuario, esta usuaria}|this user}}
#* {{quote-book|es|year=2000|author=Onofre Ricardo Contreras Jordán|title=La formación inicial y permanente del profesor de educación física|publisher=Univ de Castilla La Mancha|isbn=9788484270829|page=131
|passage=Deberá el/la tutor/a orientar, reconducir y resolver las mil y una dudas que se plantean l'''@'''s alumn'''@'''s en el prácticum ya sea I, II o III, en sus diferentes actuaciones docentes, en cuanto a evaluación, niveles de dificultad parámetros que evaluar y un largo etc {{...}}
|t=The tutor must guide, redirect and resolve the thousand and one doubts that students have in the practicum, whether I, II or III, in their different teaching activities, in terms of evaluation, levels of difficulty, parameters to be evaluated and a broad {{...}}}}

{{cat|es|Spanish gender-neutral suffixes}}

==Swedish==

===Symbol===
{{head|sv|symbol}}

# {{lb|sv|computing}} The symbol used as a [[separator]] between a [[username]] and a [[domain name]] in an e-mail address.

====Usage notes====
The symbol is called {{m|sv|snabel-a||elephant's trunk A}} in Swedish because of its shape. Less formally it is also known as {{m|sv|kanelbulle||cinnamon roll}} or {{m|sv|alfakrull||alpha curl}}

==Turkish==

===Symbol===
{{head|tr|symbol|tr=et işareti}}

# {{m|tr|her biri||each}}