a large market-town of Hungary, 40 miles S.E. of Pesth. Pop. about 30,000. Its chief products are corn and wine. D, in the English alphabet, the fourth letter, and the third consonant, is the medial of the order of dentals or palato-dentals. It is the fourth letter also in the Hebrew, Chaldee, Samaritan, Syrian, Greek, and Latin alphabets. The form of our D is the same with that of the Latins; and the Latin D is no other than the Greek Δ, with the angle on the right hand rounded off into a curve. The Δ of the Greeks, again, is borrowed from the ancient character of the Hebrew Daleth.

D is sometimes put for the aspirate Th, as Theos, Deus; sometimes it is converted into B, as Duellum, Bellum, Dueltona, Bellona. It has also an affinity with T, as Quintilian has observed (lib. i. c. 4); and hence we meet with Alexander and Cassandra, for Alexander and Cassandra, and, vice versa, quodannis and adque, for quotannis and atque. In like manner, it is interchanged with R for the sake of euphony, as in meridies for meditiae. In praenomina D stands for Decimus, and in the titles of emperors for Divus. It is also a numeral letter, representing five hundred. This arises from the circumstance that the letter D is analogous in form to ID, the half of CIO, which is the Roman numeral expression for a thousand. With a dash placed on the top thus, D, its value is increased tenfold, or, in other words, it stands for five thousand. Used as an abbreviation, D has various significations, for which see the article ABBREVIATIONS.

DACCA Jelalpore. See Fureedpore.