V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled vee or occasionally ve ()."V" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "vee," op. cit. The letter The letter V ultimately comes from the Semitic letter Waw, as do the modern letters F, U, W, and Y. See F for details. In Greek, the letter "upsilon" (?) was adapted from waw to represent, at first, the vowel as in "moon". This later developed to , the vowel spelled ü in German. In Latin, it was borrowed in early times as V (without the stem) to represent the same sound, as well as the consonantal . Thus, num ? or, as originally spelled, NVM ? was pronounced "noom" () and via / VIA was pronounced "wee-a" (. From the

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