单词 | aeolic digamma |
释义 | > as lemmasAeolic digamma Aeolic digamma n. [after classical Latin Aeolicum digammon; compare Aeolica littera Aeolic letter, and also French digamma éolique (1586 in Middle French as digame eolique)] the sixth letter of the early Greek alphabet preserved in the Aeolic dialect (see digamma n.). ΚΠ 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iv. 560 The Insertion of the Æolick Digamma, (which is alwayes done when two vowels meet). 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at F This Letter is derived to us from the Romans, who borrowed it from the Æolians; for the F does not at all differ from the Æolic Digamma, or double Gamma, thus call'd as resembling two Γ's, one over the other. 1788 Encycl. Brit. I. 142/1 The Æolic digama is a name given to the letter F, which the Æolians used to prefix to words beginning with vowels. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. (1847) I. 94/1 The Æolic digamma is described by Dionysus of Halicarnassus, in the 1st book of his Antiquities. 1887 Classical Rev. 1 290/1 The marked difference between the laws of the Homeric and Aeolic digamma. 1916 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 37 38 One of the Greek Prosody paragraphs dealt with the Aeolic Digamma. 1989 Mod. Lang. Rev. 84 422 It contains nothing comparable with Bentley's dazzling realization that the Aeolic digamma had once featured in the text of Homer. < as lemmas |
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