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daɪˈgæm ədigam·ma
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Wiktionary
digammanoun
Letter of the Old Greek alphabet: ,
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Digamma
Digamma or wau (uppercase: Ϝ, lowercase: ϝ, numeral: ϛ) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet. It originally stood for the sound /w/ but it has remained in use principally 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 episēmon during the Byzantine era and is now known as stigma after the Byzantine ligature combining σ-τ as ϛ. 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 near 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 inscriptions until the classical period. The shape of the letter went through a development from through , , , to or , which at that point was conflated with the σ-τ ligature . In modern print, a distinction is made between the letter in its original alphabetic role as a consonant sign, which is rendered as "Ϝ" or its modern lowercase variant "ϝ", and the numeric symbol, which is represented by "ϛ". In modern Greek, this is often replaced by the digraph στ.
Webster Dictionary
Digammanoun
a letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse
Etymology: [Gr. ; = twice + ga`mma the letter . So called because it resembled two gammas placed one above the other.]
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Digamma
Digamma is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet, which originally stood for the sound 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 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. The shape of the letter went through a development from through, to or, which at that point was conflated with the σ-τ ligature . In modern print, a distinction is made between the letter in its original alphabetic role as a consonant sign, which is rendered as "Ϝ" or its modern lowercase variant "ϝ", and the numeric symbol, which is represented by "ϛ".
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Digamma
dī-gam′ma, n. an obsolete letter of the Greek alphabet, having the force of our W. [So called from its form , like one capital Γ (gamma) placed over another.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of digamma in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of digamma in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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