Greek word senses marked with topical category "Greek letter names"
Parent categories: Letter names, Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Names, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Total 29 word senses
- άλφα (Noun) alpha, the name for the first letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
- έψιλον (Noun) epsilon, the fifth letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
- ήτα (Noun) eta, the seventh letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
- βήτα (Noun) beta, the second letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
- γάμα (Noun) gamma, the third letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
- γάμμα (Noun) Alternative spelling of γάμα (gáma)
- γιώτα (Noun) iota; the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet
- δέλτα (Noun) delta, the fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
- δίγαμμα (Noun) digamma, Ϝ, ϝ, the sixth letter of the archaic Greek alphabet.
- ζήτα (Noun) zeta, the sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet, transliterated as Z.
- θήτα (Noun) Theta, the 8th letter of the modern Greek alphabet (majuscule Θ, minuscule θ), originally denoting an aspirated t (/tʰ/) but now denoting the voiceless dental fricative (/θ/); usually romanized as "th".
- ιώτα (Noun) Alternative form of γιώτα (gióta)
- κάπα (Noun) A shepherd's cape
- κάππα (Noun) kappa the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet.
- λάμδα (Noun) lambda, the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
- μι (Noun) mu, the 12th letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
- νι (Noun) nu, the 13th letter of the modern Greek alphabet
- ξι (Noun) xi, the name for the 14th letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
- πι (Noun) Letter pi
- ρο (Noun) rho, the 17th letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
- σίγμα (Noun) sigma, the 18th letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
- σαμπί (Noun) sampi (obsolete Greek alphabetical character - Ϡ ϡ)
- ταυ (Noun) tau, the 19th letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
- φι (Noun) phi, the 21st letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
- χι (Noun) chi, the 22nd letter in the modern Greek alphabet.
- ψι (Noun) psi (Greek letter)
- ωμέγα (Noun) omega, the 24th letter of the Greek alphabet.
- όμικρον (Noun) omicron, the 15th letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
- ύψιλον (Noun) upsilon, the 20th letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
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