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
- : 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.
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