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Archaic letter denoting the presence of /h/ prior to a long diphthong, with a normal or low pitch ᾟᾗ: Eta with subscript iota and circumflex and rough breathing: Archaic letter denoting the presence of /h/ prior to a long diphthong, with a high or falling pitch Ίί: Iota with acute: High pitch on short vowel or rising pitch on long vowel ...
Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples galact-[1] (ΓΛΑΚ) [2]milk: Greek: γάλα, γάλακτος (gála, gálaktos): galactagogue, galactic, galactorrhea, lactose, polygala, polygalactia, galaxy
The letter Η (heta) was used for the consonant /h/. [51] Some variant local letter forms were also characteristic of Athenian writing, some of which were shared with the neighboring (but otherwise "red") alphabet of Euboia: a form of Λ that resembled a Latin L and a form of Σ that resembled a Latin S (). [51]
Some Greek words were borrowed into Latin and its descendants, the Romance languages. English often received these words from French. Some have remained very close to the Greek original, e.g., lamp (Latin lampas; Greek λαμπάς). In others, the phonetic and orthographic form has changed considerably.
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Early Greek print, from a 1566 edition of Aristotle. The sample shows the -os ligature in the middle of the second line (in the word μέθοδος), the kai ligature below it in the third line, and the -ou-ligature right below that in the fourth line, along many others. 18th-century typeface sample by William Caslon, showing a greatly reduced set of ligatures (-ου-in "τοῦ", end of first ...