Crossword-Solution: DIGAMMA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Digamma | n. | A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “DIGAMMA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| GREEK number six | 1 answer |
| GREEK letters, ancient | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DIGAMMA (5)
Spectators threw their hats into the trees, yelled themselves hoarse, and I saw several old mountaineers who understood no more of base-ball than of the lost _digamma_ in Greek going wild with the general contagion.
Further, the insignificance of Triptolemus and Eumolpus point to considerable antiquity, and the digamma is still active.
The author of that hymn, be he who he may, could never have described a blind man as attaining the utmost perfection in his art, if he had been conscious that the memory of the bard was only maintained by constant reference to the manuscript in his chest.” The loss of the digamma, that _crux_ of critics, that quicksand upon which even the acumen of Bentley was shipwrecked, seems to prove beyond a doubt, that the pronunciation of the Greek language had undergone a considerable change.
The grammarians also state that this consonant +u+ was represented by the Greek digamma, which the Romans called _vau_ also.
Now it is contended by some that this _digamma_, or _vau_, was merely taken as a symbol, somewhat arbitrarily perhaps, and that it did not indicate a particular sound, but might stand for anything which the Romans chose to represent by it; and that therefore it gives us no certain indication of what the Latin +u+ consonant was.