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late 18th century: the letter N represented as a word, since it is approximately this width.


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Abbreviation.

The name of the letter comes from Latin en. The typographic sense dates to 1793.

From French.

From Old English hine


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en (n.)

name of the letter "N;" in printing (1793), a space half as wide as an em.




en (prep.)

French, "in; as," from Latin in (see in).