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digamma

/dahy-gam-uh/US // daɪˈgæm ə //UK // (daɪˈɡæmə) //

挖土机,挖空心思,挖矿,挖矿人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a letter of the early Greek alphabet that generally fell into disuse in Attic Greek before the classical period and that represented a sound similar to English w.

Examples

  • If V or F—the digamma is here admissible, then we arrive very near our own word Fish.

  • Further, the insignificance of Triptolemus and Eumolpus point to considerable antiquity, and the digamma is still active.

  • The figure of the letter F is the same as that of the ancient Greek digamma, which it also closely resembles in power.

  • Although the digamma escapes our salt, somewhere he lurks on the lonely mountains.

  • But we are expressly told that it had the force and sound of the Greek digamma.