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sampi|ˈsæmpaɪ|
Also sanpi.
[Late Gr. σαµπῖ, prob. f. ὡς ἄν πῖ like pi.]
The modern name for an ancient Greek numeral (ϡ) = 900, which has been hypothetically identified with one of several sibilants in early Greek alphabets.
1833Penny Cycl. I. 385/2 The letter tsadi has no representative in the Greek alphabet, unless, indeed, it bear any relation to the Greek figure called sanpi, which, however, was never used, as far as it is known, for an alphabetic character. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 609/2 Herodotus..speaks of the ‘same letter which the Dorians call σάν, the Ionians σίγµα’; and though san was no letter of the Ionic alphabet, the compound sampi (= σαν + πι) denoted 900. 1912E. M. Thompson Introd. Greek & Lat. Palaeogr. vii. 91 A symbol derived from the old letter san,..which, from its partial resemblance to pi, was called sampi (= san + pi), for 900. 1968W. S. Allen Vox Graeca i. 58 This stage [sc. affricate stage of [ts]] is probably represented by some early Asiatic Ionic inscriptions which show in such cases a special letter Ͳ.., which may be derived from the Semitic ‘tsade’ (and perhaps survives in the numeral symbol ϡ = 900, now known by the late Byzantine name of σαµπῖ ‹ ὡς ἄν πῖ). |