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"english": "Etruscan, like Umbrian and Oscan, had the fricative semivowel V, marked with an F, that is, a digamma.",
"ref": "1926, Atti e memorie dell'Accademia di Agricoltura, Scienze e Lettere di Verona (5), volume 2, Verona: La Tipografica Veronese, page 23:",
"text": "L’etrusco possedeva come l’umbro e l’osco la semivocale fricativa V, indicata con un F = un digamma.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "The pronunciation of the Etruscan digamma as the /v/ of Italian vivere is grossly incorrect.",
"ref": "1997, Massimo Pittau, “Le consonanti”, in La lingua etrusca: grammatica e lessico, § 20, page 59:",
"text": "La pronunzia […] del digamma etrusco come la /v/ dell’ital. vivere è gravemente errata.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a letter with a shape similar to that of digamma:",
"the Old Italic letter 𐌅"
],
"links": [
[
"𐌅",
"𐌅"
]
],
"tags": [
"invariable",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Italian terms with obsolete senses",
"Italian terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "But it's hard for me to believe that Claudius discovered the letter F, since it's mentioned by Cicero, who lived many years before Claudius, [and] before him, in the ninth book of the letters written to Atticus, names his villa Formiana [as] Digamma, because it[s name] started with the letter F, which is called digamma, due to it seemingly being made of two Γ",
"ref": "1600, “Sisto Ⅴ. Pont. ⅭⅭⅩⅩⅩⅠ [Sixtus Ⅴ, 231ˢᵗ Pope]”, in Bartolomeo Dionigi, transl., Historia delle vite dei pontefici, translation of Liber de vita Christi ac omnium pontificum by Bartolomeo Platina, page 318:",
"text": "ma à me ſi fà malageuole à credere, che Claudio ritrouaſſe la lettera F, percioche di eſſa ne fa mentione Cicerone, che fu molti anni auanti, che fuſie Claudio, anzi egli nel nono libro delle lettere ſcritte ad Attico nomina la ſua villa Formiana. Digamma, perche ella cominciaua dalla lettera F, la quale viene detta digamma, eſſendo che paia che ne figuri due Γ",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "The Romans then added six letters to their ancient sixteen ones: F, K, Q, X, Y, Z, and H. The latter, however, is not a letter, but a mark of aspiration. And from the Aeolics they took the F, which is called digamma",
"ref": "1680, “Cap. Ⅵ. Chi fu il primo che trovò le lettere ò che le recò nel Lazio, e dell’accresciuto numero di esse, e della varietà, della forza, e del suono [Chapter 6: Who was the first one to discover the letters, or that brought them to Latium; on their increased number, and on the variety of the strength and sound]”, in Francesco Baldelli, transl., De gli inventori delle cose, translation of De inventoribus by Polydore Vergil, page 24:",
"text": "i Latini […] aggiunſero poi alle loro ſedici antiche, ſei altre lettere F. K. Q. X. Y. Z. & H. Queſta nondimeno non è lettera, ma nota d’aſpirazione . E l’F, che ſi dice Digamma l’hebbero da gli Eolij",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a letter with a shape similar to that of digamma:",
"the Latin letter F"
],
"links": [
[
"F",
"F"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"a letter with a shape similar to that of digamma:",
"(obsolete) the Latin letter F"
],
"tags": [
"invariable",
"masculine",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/diˈɡam.ma/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-amma"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"it:digamma"
],
"word": "digamma"
}
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