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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DIGAMMA

Via Latin from Greek, from di-1 + gamma; from its shape, which suggests one gamma upon another.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DIGAMMA

digamma  [daɪˈɡæmə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIGAMMA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Digamma is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DIGAMMA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

digamma

Digamma

Digamma is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet, which originally stood for the sound /w/ and later remained in use only as a symbol for the number "6". Whereas it was originally called wau, its most common appellation in classical Greek is digamma, while, as a numeral, it was called episēmon during the Byzantine era. Today, the numeral is often called stigma, after the value of a Byzantine Greek ligature σ-τ, which shares the same shape and was used as a textual ligature in Greek print until the 19th century. Digamma/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, which was also derived from waw but was placed at the end of the Greek alphabet. Digamma/wau is in turn the ancestor of the Latin letter F. As an alphabetic letter it is attested in archaic and dialectal ancient Greek inscriptions until the classical period.

Definition of digamma in the English dictionary

The definition of digamma in the dictionary is a letter of the Greek alphabet that became obsolete before the classical period of the language. It represented a semivowel like English W and was used as a numeral in later stages of written Greek, and passed into the Roman alphabet as F.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIGAMMA


Alabama
ˌæləˈbæmə
bammer
ˈbæmə
crammer
ˈkræmə
damar
ˈdæmə
dammar
ˈdæmə
gamma
ˈɡæmə
gammer
ˈɡæmə
glamor
ˈɡlæmə
glamour
ˈɡlæmə
grammar
ˈɡræmə
hammer
ˈhæmə
jammer
ˈdʒæmə
programmer
ˈprəʊɡræmə
rammer
ˈræmə
scammer
ˈskæmə
slammer
ˈslæmə
sledgehammer
ˈslɛdʒˌhæmə
spammer
ˈspæmə
stammer
ˈstæmə
yammer
ˈjæmə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIGAMMA

dig
dig in
dig one´s heels in
digamies
digamist
digamous
digamy
digastric
Digby chick
Digby chicken
digenesis
digenetic
digerati
digest
digestant
digestedly
digester
digestibility
digestible
digestibleness

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIGAMMA

agrostemma
comma
dhamma
dilemma
emma
gemma
Glomma
gramma
grandmamma
gumma
lemma
limma
mamma
maremma
momma
on the horns of a dilemma
Oxford comma
sarcolemma
stemma
summa

Synonyms and antonyms of digamma in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «digamma» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIGAMMA

Find out the translation of digamma to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of digamma from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «digamma» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

digamma
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

digamma
570 millions of speakers

English

digamma
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

digamma
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

digamma
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дигамма
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

digamma
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

digamma
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

digamma
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Digamma
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

digamma
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ディガンマ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

digamma
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Digamma
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

digamma
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

digamma
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दिग्मा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

digamma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

digamma
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

digamma
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дігамма
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

digamma
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δίγαμμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

digamma
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

digamma
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

digamma
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of digamma

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIGAMMA»

The term «digamma» is regularly used and occupies the 93.451 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIGAMMA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about digamma

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIGAMMA»

Discover the use of digamma in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to digamma and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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An Essay Upon the Versification of Homer, and His Digamma: ...
lity of alteration ; a long list of similar words, of which two are granted by Dunbar ; completely intractable without digamma, and quite regular with it, ergo ; metre of Homer is in favour of the digamma. 47. Further assertions, regarding its use in ...
James MacIvor, 1839
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pt. I. The poets [epic and lyric] with an appendix on Homer ...
But no doubt hangs over certain Chalcidian inscriptions of Magna Graecia, which contain examples of the digamma ; and since the Chalcidian colonies were sent out about 700-660 B.C., the digamma could not have been lost in the Ionic ...
Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Archibald Henry Sayce, 1895
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A History of Classical Greek Literature
But no doubt hangs over certain Chalcidian inscriptions of Magna Graecia, which contain examples of the digamma ; and since the Chalcidian colonies were sent out about 700-660 B.C., the digamma could not have been lost in the Ionic ...
Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Archibald Henry Sayce, 1889
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A History of Classical Greek Literature: pt. 1. The epic and ...
But no doubt hangs over certain Chalcidian inscriptions of Magna Graecia, which contain examples of the digamma ; and since the Chalcidian colonies were sent out about 700-660 B.C., the digamma could not have been lost in the Ionic ...
John Pentland Mahaffy, Archibald Henry Sayce, 1903
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The poets (with an appendix on Homer, by Prof. Sayce)
But no doubt hangs over certain Chalcidian inscriptions of Magna Gnecia, which contain examples of the digamma ; and since the Chalcidian colonies were sent out about 700-660 b.c, the digamma could not have been lost in the Ionic dialect  ...
Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Archibald Henry Sayce, 1880
6
The First Three Books of Homer's Iliad, According to the ...
And Also with the Restoration of the Digamma ... Homer, Charles Anthon, Benjamin Davies. Line. (olvov has the digamma, Folvov, so that no elision takes place in the preceding diphthong.) 248. Kripvi 'ISdiog t)\Si %pvoiaa KU7rj«XXa. (' ISalog ...
Homer, Charles Anthon, Benjamin Davies, 1854
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of ...
In the inscriptions of that Emperor the Digamma makes its appearance inverted, as in the words AMPLIAjIT, TERMINA^ITQ, and uniformly for V. The advantage of this introduction appears to have been the distinction of the consonant and ...
Encyclopaedia, Edward Smedley, 1845
8
Transactions of the Philological Society
In these Eolic inscriptions there is no reason, as Ahrens points out, why the sign of digamma should haw been changed, had not the sound itself changed. In the Baaotian dialect the initial digamma is retained until a late date in literature and ...
Philological Society (Great Britain), 1908
9
Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns: Diachronic Development in Epic ...
CHAPTER 3 DIGAMMA, ALTERNATIVE MORPHS AND OTHER CRITERIA The role played by the statistical analysis of common features of the poetic diction has been touched on already in Chapter 1 , especially regarding digamma.
Richard Janko, 2007
10
The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman ...
The Traces of the Digamma in Ionic and Lesbian Greek* Richardbentley has won only blame for wishing to change a 29 from (JLvrfoaro yap Kara. OvyMV dp< vfxovos Alyladoto to fj.vrjaaro yap . Kara vovv avortfiovos Alyladoio;1 whereas his  ...
Milman Parry, Adam Parry, 1987

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIGAMMA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term digamma is used in the context of the following news items.
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Translating André du Bouchet.
... on translation, the fruit of our work on the anthology Second Simplicity (Yale UP), the prose poetry collection The Digamma (Seagull Books), ... «The Fortnightly Review, Jun 15»
2
The Young T.S. Eliot
At this stage, the most notable and lively verse Eliot produced was the obscene doggerel he turned out for the delight of his fellow members of the Digamma ... «Harvard Magazine, Jun 15»
3
The Credit Card Number of the Beast
The character known as digamma, representing a final sigma, evolved through a range of forms and so didn't look like an “s” until significantly ... «Patheos, Apr 15»
4
St. Louis Bore Him
He joined the Digamma (or Fox) Club, an exclusive social and dining club for Harvard undergraduates founded in 1898, in his sophomore year ... «Wall Street Journal, Apr 15»
5
Savannah Levins
She was Vice President of DiGamma Kappa, the University's official Broadcast Society. Savannah loves storytelling and travel. She spent a ... «WLTX.com, Feb 15»
6
Snellville native and GMA news anchor receives award
“Good Morning America” news anchor Amy Robach will receive the DiGamma Kappa Award for Distinguished Service for Broadcasting at the ... «Gwinnettdailypost.com, Jan 15»
7
Yvonne Chaka Chaka's Low-Key Visit to Kenya
Yvonne's manager Luis Digamma who works as the director of Princess of Africa Foundation and also as a humanitarian advisor accompanied ... «The Star, Jan 15»
8
'the stroke of an oar given in true time'
... Yves Bonnefoy, The Curved Planks, Second Simplicity, and The Digamma. Openwork, an André du Bouchet reader, was recently published ... «The Fortnightly Review, Dec 14»
9
Three essays on 'Romeo and Juliet'.
... The Curved Planks, Second Simplicity, and The Digamma. Openwork, an André du Bouchet reader, was recently published by Yale. He lives ... «The Fortnightly Review, Dec 14»
10
Luxemburgo, refugio fiscal para grandes fortunas españolas y …
Lo curioso de este caso es que, en la documentación disponible en los registros luxemburgueses, la firma (Digamma International Société ... «Rebelión, Nov 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Digamma [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/digamma>. Apr 2024 ».
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