p C2+ Topic:General Vocabulary US /ˈpi/ UK /ˈpiː/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 noun the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet He told the child to mind her p's and q's at dinner. Appears in Proverbs (2) See all Any publicity is good publicity Matching variant: Any P.R. is good P.R. There's no such thing as bad publicity Matching variant: There is no such thing as bad P.R. Etymology AI details The sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, from Latin P, from Greek pi (Π), from the Phoenician letter pe ('mouth'). pe Middle English View etymology graph -> Topics General Vocabulary External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # p **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈpi/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈpiː/ ## Meanings 1. the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet ## Examples - He told the child to mind her p's and q's at dinner. ## Roots and Affixes - Root: pe ## Etymology The sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, from Latin P, from Greek pi (Π), from the Phoenician letter pe ('mouth'). ## AI Etymology P is the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, from Latin P, from Greek pi (Π), from the Phoenician letter pe ('mouth'). Important recorded forms include pe (Phoenician). The modern sense follows that older lexical line closely. In current use it covers the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet. ## Topics - General Vocabulary markdown