Notation for "the" left adjoint functor
In EGA 0.1.5.2-3 (from the 1971 Springer edition) the right adjoint and the left adjoint of a functor $F$ are denoted by $F^{\rm ad}$ and ${}^{\rm ad}\!F$, respectively.
P. Gabriel uses $F_\lambda$ for the left adjoint and $F_\rho$ for the right adjoint. See for instance p. 344 of the article "Covering spaces in representation theory" by K. Bongartz and P. Gabriel (Invent. Math. 65, 1982) (EuDML).