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Occasionally used in loanwords from German. You're full of scheiße!
obsolete, rare A ligature representing in italic text. As in nombers Abſtracte, euery nomber is not a rooted nomber, but ſome certaine only emongeſt theim, ſo in nombers Coßike, all nombers haue not rootes: but ſoche onely emongeſt ſimple Coßike nombers are rooted, whoſe nomber hath a roote, agreable to the figure of his denomination.

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {ß},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/%C3%9F},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}