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Definitions of digamma in various dictionaries:
A letter occurring in certain early forms of Greek and transliterated in English as w.
noun - a Greek letter
DIGAMMA - Digamma, waw, or wau (uppercase: , lowercase: , numeral: ) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet. It originally stood for the sound /w/ but it h...
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| Apr 28 2017 The Times - Cryptic |
| Sep 7 2007 The Times - Cryptic |
| Oct 3 2004 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
| Aug 10 2004 The Times - Cryptic |
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| A letter occurring in certain early forms of Greek and transliterated in English as w. |
| The sixth letter of the early Greek alphabet (, ), probably pronounced as w. It became obsolete before the Classical period. |
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Digamma, waw, or wau (uppercase: , lowercase: , numeral: ) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet. It originally stood for the sound /w/ but it has principally remained in use as a Greek numeral for 6. Whereas it was originally called waw or wau, its most common appellation in classical Greek is digamma; as a numeral, it was called epismon during the Byzantine era and is now known as stigma after the Byzantine ligature combining - as . * Digamma or wau was part of the original archaic Greek alphabet as initially adopted from Phoenician. Like its model, Phoenician waw, it represented the voiced labial-velar approximant /w/ and stood in the 6th position in the alphabet between epsilon and zeta. It is the consonantal doublet of the vowel letter upsilon (/u/), which was also derived from waw but was placed at the end of the Greek alphabet. Digamma or wau is in turn the ancestor of the Latin letter F. As an alphabetic letter, it is attested in archaic and dialectal ancient Greek inscript |