Definitions for digammas

digammas di·gam·ma

Spelling: [dahy-gam-uh]
IPA: /daɪˈgæm ə/

Digammas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 192 anagrams from letters in digammas (aadgimms).

Definitions for digammas

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.

Origin of digammas

1545-55; Latin Greek dígamma, equivalent to di- di-1 + gámma gamma; from its resemblance to two gammas placed one over the other, s

Examples for digammas

Sometimes the sound of the digamma is given, we are told, where the character itself 31 is not written.

I don't care a straw for Greek particles, or the digamma, no more does his mother.

Think of living forty years, like Doctor Chocker, on the husks of the digamma!

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

Which of these various sounds should be given the digamma appears to have been determined by the law of euphony.

I don't care a straw for Greek particles, or the digamma; no more does his mother.

Can it be from that tendency of what we call comprehensively the digamma to lapse into the , which Heyne has observed?

But he could not do that, so he read the proof-sheets of his new treatise on the digamma.

Now the office of the Greek digamma was apparently manifold.

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

Word Value for digammas
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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