Digamma Definition

dī-gămə
noun
The sixth letter (ϝ) of the early Greek alphabet, derived from the Semitic vav and having the sound of the English w: it was replaced in the Latin alphabet by F.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Digamma

Noun

Singular:
digamma
Plural:
digammas

Origin of Digamma

  • Latin from Greek di- two di–1 gamma gamma (because its shape resembles two gammas) gamma

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Digamma Sentence Examples

  • But the Phoenician form corresponding to it is the consonant w, and occupies the of position of the Greek digamma as sixth in the series.

  • But as Dr Evans has found a form like the digamma among his most recent types of symbols, and as we have no intermediate forms which will prove the development of from Y, though the form found at Oaxos in Crete, viz.

  • For the Greek digamma Etruscan used both 3 and q, but the former only was borrowed by the other languages.

  • As the old digamma was kept, this new sign was placed after those borrowed from the Chalcidian - alphabet.

  • So too the digamma is called " Aeolic " by grammarians, and is found on Aeolic and Doric inscriptions.

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Words Starting With

DDIDIG

Words Ending With

AMAMMA

Unscrambles

digamma

Words Starting With D and Ending With A

Starts With D & Ends With AStarts With DI & Ends With AStarts With D & Ends With MA

Word Length

7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With D7 Letter Words Ending With A