I

¹

abbreviation

1. interstate (used with a number to designate an interstate highway).

   I-95.

I

²

Symbol.

1. the ninth in order or in a series.

2. (sometimes lowercase),  the Roman numeral for 1.

3. Chemistry.,  iodine.

4. Biochemistry.,  isoleucine.

5. Electricity.,  current.

6. Logic.,  particular affirmative.

7. (italics),  isotopic spin.

-i-

³

1. the typical ending of the first element of compounds of Latin words, as -o- is of Greek words, but often used in English with a first element of any origin, if the second element is of Latin origin.

   cuneiform; Frenchify.

I.

⁴

abbreviation

1. Independent.

2. Island; Islands.

3. Isle; Isles.

I

⁵

[ahy]

pronoun

nominative

I ,

possessive

my, mine ,

objective

me ,

plural-nominative

we ,

possessive

our, ours ,

objective

us .

1. the nominative singular pronoun, used in referring to oneself, the person speaking, writing, or otherwise communicating.

noun

plural

I's 

1. (used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular.)

2. Metaphysics.,  the ego.

I

⁶

Or i

[ahy]

noun

plural

I's, Is, i's, is. 

1. the ninth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.

2. any spoken sound represented by the letter I or i, as in big, nice, or ski.

3. something having the shape of an I.

4. a written or printed representation of the letter I or i.

5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter I or i.

i.

⁷

abbreviation

1. imperator.

2. incisor.

3. interest.

4. intransitive.

5. island.

6. isle; isles.

i

⁸

Mathematics.

1. Also called imaginary unit. the imaginary number .

2. a unit vector on the x -axis of a coordinate system.

i-

⁹

1. variant of y-.

i

¹

/ aɪ /

noun

1. the ninth letter and third vowel of the modern English alphabet

2. any of several speech sounds represented by this letter, in English as in bite or hit

3. 1. something shaped like an I

   2. ( in combination )

      an I-beam

4. to pay meticulous attention to detail

i

²

symbol

1. Also called: j. the imaginary number √–1

I

³

/ aɪ /

pronoun

1. (subjective) refers to the speaker or writer

-i-

⁴

1. used between elements in a compound word Compare -o-

   cuneiform

   coniferous

I

⁵

symbol

1. chem iodine

2. physics current

3. physics isospin

4. logic a particular affirmative categorial statement, such as some men are married, often symbolized as SiP Compare A E O 1

5. one See Roman numerals

abbreviation

1. Italy (international car registration)

I.

⁶

abbreviation

1. International

2. Island or Isle

-i

⁷

suffix

1. of or relating to a region or people, esp of the Middle East

   Iraqi

   Bangladeshi

i

1. The number whose square is equal to −1. Numbers expressed in terms of i are called imaginary or complex numbers.

Grammar Note

See me.

Word History and Origins

Origin of I¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English ik, ich, i, Old English ic, ih; cognate with Gothic ik, German ich, Old Norse ek, Latin ego, Greek egṓ, Old Church Slavonic azŭ, Lithuanian aš, Sanskrit ahám

Word History and Origins

Origin of I¹

C12: reduced form of Old English ic; compare Old Saxon ik, Old High German ih, Sanskrit ahám

Origin of I²

from Latin, stem vowel of nouns and adjectives in combination

Origin of I³

(for sense 4) from Latin ( aff ) i ( rmo ) I affirm

Origin of I⁴

from an adjectival suffix in Semitic and in Indo-Iranian languages

Idioms and Phrases

see dot the i's and cross the t's.

Example Sentences

“I have no medium that can give me color of such wonderful luminosity as the Autochrome plate,” wrote the photographer Edward Steichen in 1908.

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In part, I needed a trainer to keep me from dropping a barbell on myself; plus I had no clue how to safely do a squat, let alone design an effective workout.

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To ward off the unrelenting approach of middle age, last year I took up weight lifting and hired a personal trainer.

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“I react to people who look like well-created characters in a novel,” he says in an interview with the book’s editor, Bill Shapiro.

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“I’ve still so much to say in music,” he said to a friend, “alas, I cannot get my ideas onto paper!”

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