English word senses marked with topical category "Greek letter names"

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Total 36 word senses

• alpha (Noun) The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α, α), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it is the predecessor to A.
• antisigma (Noun) An unattested Claudian letter, possibly resembling Ↄ or ↃC.
• beta (Noun) The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
• chi (Noun) The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.
• delta (Noun) The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ.
• delta (Noun) A small but noticeable effect. Compare epsilon.
• digamma (Noun) Letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet: Ϝ, ϝ
• episemon (Noun) The Greek letter digamma.
• epsilon (Noun) The name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or Ε, preceded by delta (Δ, δ) and followed by zeta (Ζ, ζ).
• eta (Noun) The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.
• final sigma (Noun) The form of the Greek letter sigma only ever used as the last letter of a word: ς.
• gamma (Noun) The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).
• heta (Noun) The Ancient Greek letter eta, or variants of it, when used in their original function of denoting the consonant /h/.
• iota (Noun) The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.
• kappa (Noun) The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet.
• khi (Noun) Alternative spelling of chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ), the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
• koppa (Noun) The 18th Ancient Greek letter in early versions of the Greek alphabet, Ϙ (lowercase ϙ).
• lambda (Noun) The eleventh letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabet, the twelfth of the Old Greek alphabet.
• lunate sigma (Noun) The form of the Greek letter sigma used in Medieval Greek and occasionally in Greek Orthodox Church transcriptions: ϲ.
• mu (Noun) The 12th letter of the Modern Greek alphabet.
• nu (Noun) The letter of the Greek alphabet Ν (N) and ν (n).
• omega (Noun) The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω.
• omicron (Noun) The 15th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets (16th in Ancient and Old Greek), used in ordering lists as in naming (astronomy) the 15th star of a constellation or (epidemiology) the 15th discovered major variant of a disease.
• phi (Noun) Φ, the 21st letter of the Euclidean and modern Greek alphabet, usually romanized as "ph".
• pi (Noun) The 16th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.
• psi (Noun) The twenty-third letter of Classical and Modern Greek and the twenty-fifth letter of Old and Ancient Greek.
• rho (Noun) The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
• sampi (Noun) The obsolete Greek letter Ϡ, ϡ.
• san (Noun) A letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ) that came after pi and before qoppa.
• sigma (Noun) The eighteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets (Σ, σ), the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient.
• tau (Noun) The letter Τ／τ in the Greek alphabet; being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, and the twenty-first letter of the Old and Ancient Greek alphabets.
• theta (Noun) The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ.
• upsilon (Noun) The twentieth letter of Classical and Modern Greek; the twenty-second letter of Old and Ancient Greek.
• wau (Noun) Digamma (Ϝ/ϝ).
• xi (Noun) The 14th letter of Classical and Modern Greek. The 15th in Ancient and Old Greek.
• zeta (Noun) The sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet (Ζ (Z), ζ (z)) preceded by epsilon (Ε (E), ε (e)) and followed by eta, (Η (I), η (i)); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, in which it is preceded by digamma (Ϝ (W), ϝ (w))

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