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omicron|ˈɒmɪkrɒn, əʊˈmaɪkrɒn|
[Gr. ὄ µικρόν, lit. ‘little O’: cf. omega.]
The fifteenth letter (ο, ο) of the Greek alphabet, originally having the value of the short o.
c1400Mandeville Trav. (1725) iii. 25 What Lettres thei ben..with the Names..α Alpha, β Betha,..ο Omicron..χ Chi, [etc.]. 1631R. Harris Arraignement Whole Creature xiii. 208 The whole Globe..cannot fill this little triangulary heart: so many Omicrons, cannot fill one little Delta. 1727–41[see omega 1]. 1893E. M. Thompson Handbk. Gr. & Lat. Palæogr. x. 135 The very small size of theta and omikron, may also be noticed. 1947Jrnl. Investigative Dermatol. IX. 215 Where -oma occurs as the ending in words properly formed from the Greek, the stem always ends in omicron or omega (as a lengthening of omicron). Ibid. 213 Many such Greek verb stems, but by no means all, end in o represented by omicron when the pronunciation is short (ŏ) or by omega (ω) when it is long (ō). 1959A. G. Woodhead Study of Greek Inscriptions ii. 18 This differentiation, like that between omicron and omega, gradually spread to the rest of the Greek world. |