"Kappa Kappa (uppercase Κ, lowercase κ or cursive ϰ; , ""káppa"") is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet, used to represent the sound in Ancient and Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals, has a value of 20. It was derived from the Phoenician letter kaph . Letters that arose from kappa include the Roman K and Cyrillic К. Greek proper names and placenames containing kappa are often written in English with ""c"" due to the Romans' transliterations into the Latin alphabet: Constantinople, Corinth, Crete. The cursive form is generally a simple font variant of lower-case kappa, but"
"Lambda Lambda, Λ, λ (uppercase ', lowercase '; ""lám(b)da"") is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the sound /l/. In the system of Greek numerals lambda has a value of 30. Lambda is related to the Phoenician letter Lamed . Letters in other alphabets that stemmed from lambda include the Latin L and the Cyrillic letter El (Л, л). The ancient grammarians and dramatists give evidence to the pronunciation as () in Classical Greek times. In Modern Greek the name of the letter, Λάμδα, is pronounced . In early Greek alphabets, the shape and orientation of lambda varied."
"Omicron Omicron (uppercase Ο, lowercase ο, literally ""small o"": όμικρον < ὂ μικρόν - ""ò mikrón"", micron meaning 'small' in contrast to ""omega"") is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 70. This letter is derived from the Phoenician letter ayin . In classical Greek, omicron represented the sound in contrast to ""omega"" and ""ου"" . In modern Greek, omicron represents the . Letters that arose from omicron include Roman O and Cyrillic O. The upper-case letter of omicron (O) was originally used in mathematics as a symbol for"
"The number 10000 can also be written 10,000 (UK and US), 10.000 (Europe mainland), 10 000 (transition metric), or 10•000 (with the dot raised to the middle of the zeroes; metric). 10,000 10,000 (ten thousand) is the natural number following 9,999 and preceding 10,001. Many languages have a specific word for this number: in Ancient Greek it is (the etymological root of the word myriad in English), in Aramaic , in Hebrew [], in Chinese (Mandarin , Cantonese , Hokkien ""bān""), in Japanese [], in Khmer [], in Korean [], in Vietnamese , in Thai [], and in Malayalam []."
"Chi (letter) Chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ; ) is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, pronounced or in English. Its value in Ancient Greek was an aspirated velar stop (in the Western Greek alphabet: /ks/). In Koine Greek and later dialects it became a fricative (/) along with Θ and Φ. In Modern Greek, it has two distinct pronunciations: In front of high or front vowels ( or ) it is pronounced as a voiceless palatal fricative , as in German ""ich"" or like the ""h"" in some pronunciations of the English words ""hew"" and ""human"". In front of"
"Theta Theta (, ; uppercase Θ or ϴ, lowercase θ (which resembles digit 0 with horizontal line) or ϑ; ""thē̂ta"" ; Modern: ""thī́ta"" ) is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth . In the system of Greek numerals it has the value 9. In Ancient Greek, θ represented the aspirated voiceless dental plosive , but in Modern Greek it represents the voiceless dental fricative . In its archaic form, θ was written as a cross within a circle (as in the Etruscan or ), and later, as a line or point in circle"
"10,000 10,000 (ten thousand) is the natural number following 9,999 and preceding 10,001. Many languages have a specific word for this number: in Ancient Greek it is (the etymological root of the word myriad in English), in Aramaic , in Hebrew [], in Chinese (Mandarin , Cantonese , Hokkien ""bān""), in Japanese [], in Khmer [], in Korean [], in Vietnamese , in Thai [], and in Malayalam []. It is often used to mean an indefinite very large number. The Greek root was used in early versions of the metric system in the form of the decimal prefix myria-."
"indicate text style. Theta Theta (, ; uppercase Θ or ϴ, lowercase θ (which resembles digit 0 with horizontal line) or ϑ; ""thē̂ta"" ; Modern: ""thī́ta"" ) is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth . In the system of Greek numerals it has the value 9. In Ancient Greek, θ represented the aspirated voiceless dental plosive , but in Modern Greek it represents the voiceless dental fricative . In its archaic form, θ was written as a cross within a circle (as in the Etruscan or ), and later, as a line or"
"J J is the tenth letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its normal name in English is ""jay"" or, now uncommonly, ""jy"" . When used for the palatal approximant, it may be called ""yod"" ( or ) or ""yot"" ( or ). The letter ""J"" originated as a swash letter ""I"", used for the letter ""I"" at the end of Roman numerals when following another ""I"", as in ""XXIIJ"" or ""xxiij"" instead of ""XXIII"" or ""xxiii"" for the Roman numeral representing 23. A distinctive usage emerged in Middle High German. Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478–1550)"
"N N (named ""en"" ) is the fourteenth letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. One of the most common hieroglyphs, snake, was used in Egyptian writing to stand for a sound like the English , because the Egyptian word for ""snake"" was ""djet"". It is speculated by many that Semitic people working in Egypt adapted hieroglyphics to create the first alphabet, and that they used the same snake symbol to represent N, because their word for ""snake"" may have begun with that sound. However, the name for the letter in the Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic"
"in a base 10 numeral system that used 21 of the letters of the Greek alphabet with the meanings given in the following table, and a symbol, ""∠′ "", that means and a raised circle ""○"" that fills a blank space (effectively representing zero). Two of the letters, labeled ""archaic"" in the table below, had not been in use in the Greek language for some centuries before the ""Almagest"" was written, but were still in use as numerals and musical notes. Thus, for example, an arc of ° is expressed as ""ρμγ""∠′. (As the table only reaches 180°, the Greek"
"Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering Greek letters are used in mathematics, science, engineering, and other areas where mathematical notation is used as symbols for constants, special functions, and also conventionally for variables representing certain quantities. In these contexts, the capital letters and the small letters represent distinct and unrelated entities. Those Greek letters which have the same form as Latin letters are rarely used: capital A, B, E, Z, H, I, K, M, N, O, P, T, Y, X. Small ι, ο and υ are also rarely used, since they closely resemble the Latin letters i, o"
"K in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has a mixture of the Byzantine families. The manuscript was written by Philip, a monk. Wiedmann and J. G. J. Braun collated some portions of the manuscript for Scholz (1794-1852). The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886. The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Gr. I. 18) in Venice. Minuscule 411 Minuscule 411 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1013 (in Soden's numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically"
"Mu (letter) Mu (uppercase Μ, lowercase μ; Ancient Greek , or μυ—both ) or my is the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 40. Mu was derived from the Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for water, which had been simplified by the Phoenicians and named after their word for water, to become 𐤌 (mem). Letters that arose from mu include the Roman M and the Cyrillic М. In Ancient Greek, the name of the letter was written and pronounced [mŷː]. In Modern Greek, the letter is spelled and pronounced . In"
"(Λ̸) or 03BB (λ̸). Unicode uses the spelling ""lamda"" in character names, instead of ""lambda"", due to ""preferences expressed by the Greek National Body"". These characters are used only as mathematical symbols. Stylized Greek text should be encoded using the normal Greek letters, with markup and formatting to indicate text style. Lambda Lambda, Λ, λ (uppercase ', lowercase '; ""lám(b)da"") is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the sound /l/. In the system of Greek numerals lambda has a value of 30. Lambda is related to the Phoenician letter Lamed . Letters in other alphabets that stemmed from"
"in Unicode as of version 5.1, at codepoints U+A744 and U+A745. K with stroke and diagonal stroke K with stroke and diagonal stroke (Ꝅ, ꝅ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from K with the addition of bars through the ascender and the leg. This letter is used in medieval texts as an abbreviation for ""karta"" and ""kartam"", a document or writ. It was also used as an abbreviation for ""Kalendas"" at the end of the tenth century. The same function could also be performed by ""K with stroke"" (Ꝁ, ꝁ), or ""K with diagonal stroke"" (Ꝃ, ꝃ)."
"Lectionary 10 Lectionary 10, designated by siglum ℓ ""10"" (in the Gregory-Aland numbering). It is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on vellum leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th-century. The manuscript is lacunose. The codex contains lessons from the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Luke (""Evangelistarium""). Lessons from the Gospel of John were lost. The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 142 parchment leaves (), 2 columns per page, 23 lines per page. In Mark 10:19 — phrase μη αποστερησης is omitted, as in codices B (added by second corrector), K, W, Ψ,"
"Xi (letter) Xi (uppercase Ξ, lowercase ξ; ) is the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet. It is pronounced in Modern Greek, and generally or in English. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 60. Xi was derived from the Phoenician letter samekh . Xi is not to be confused with the letter chi, which gave its form to the Latin letter X. Both in classical Ancient Greek and in Modern Greek, the letter Ξ represents the sound . In some archaic local variants of the Greek alphabet, this letter was missing. Instead, especially in the"
"Nu (letter) Nu (; uppercase Ν lowercase ν; ""ni"" ) or ny is the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 50. It is derived from the ancient Phoenician language nun . Its Latin equivalent is N, though the lowercase resembles the Roman lowercase v (formula_1). The name of the letter is written in Ancient Greek and traditional Modern Greek polytonic orthography, while in Modern Greek it is written . The uppercase Nu is not used, because it is normally identical to Latin N. The lower-case letter ν is used"
"M M (named ""em"" ) is the thirteenth letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. The letter M is derived from the Phoenician Mem, via the Greek Mu (Μ, μ). Semitic Mem is most likely derived from a ""Proto-Sinaitic"" (Bronze Age) adoption of the ""water"" ideogram in Egyptian writing. The Egyptian sign had the acrophonic value , from the Egyptian word for ""water"", ""nt""; the adoption as the Semitic letter for was presumably also on acrophonic grounds, from the Semitic word for ""water"", ""*mā(y)-"". The letter represents the bilabial nasal consonant sound in the orthography"
"K with stroke and diagonal stroke K with stroke and diagonal stroke (Ꝅ, ꝅ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from K with the addition of bars through the ascender and the leg. This letter is used in medieval texts as an abbreviation for ""karta"" and ""kartam"", a document or writ. It was also used as an abbreviation for ""Kalendas"" at the end of the tenth century. The same function could also be performed by ""K with stroke"" (Ꝁ, ꝁ), or ""K with diagonal stroke"" (Ꝃ, ꝃ). Capital and small K with stroke and diagonal stroke is encoded"
"for the design of steel structures. In graph theory, a lowercase chi is used to represent a graph's chromatic number. Chi (letter) Chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ; ) is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, pronounced or in English. Its value in Ancient Greek was an aspirated velar stop (in the Western Greek alphabet: /ks/). In Koine Greek and later dialects it became a fricative (/) along with Θ and Φ. In Modern Greek, it has two distinct pronunciations: In front of high or front vowels ( or ) it is pronounced as a voiceless palatal fricative , as"
"next to it. Ten was represented by the letter (Δ) of the word for ten, ""deka"", one hundred by the letter from the word for hundred, etc. The Ionian numeration used their entire alphabet including three archaic letters. The numeral notation of the Greeks, though far less convenient than that now in use, was formed on a perfectly regular and scientific plan, and could be used with tolerable effect as an instrument of calculation, to which purpose the Roman system was totally inapplicable. The Greeks divided the twenty-four letters of their alphabet into three classes, and, by adding another symbol"
"Z Z (named ""zed"" or ""zee"" ) is the 26th and final letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. In most English-speaking countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Zambia and Australia, the letter's name is ""zed"" , reflecting its derivation from the Greek ""zeta"" (this dates to Latin, which borrowed X, Y, and Z from Greek, along with their names), but in American English its name is ""zee"" , analogous to the names for B, C, D, etc., and deriving from a late 17th-century English dialectal form. Another English dialectal form"
"in the words ""knight,"" ""knife,"" ""knot,"" ""know,"" and ""knee"". Like J, X, Q, and Z, K is not used very frequently in English. It is the fifth least frequently used letter in the English language, with a frequency of about 0.8% in words. The SI prefix for a thousand is kilo-, officially abbreviated as k—for instance, prefixed to ""metre"" or its abbreviation ""m"", ""kilometre"" or ""km"" signifies a thousand metres. As such, people occasionally represent numbers in a non-standard notation by replacing the last three zeros of the general numeral with ""K"": for instance, 30K for 30,000. In most languages"
"Omega Omega (capital: Ω, lowercase: ω; Greek ὦ, later ὦ μέγα, Modern Greek ωμέγα) is the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numeric system/Isopsephy (Gematria), it has a value of 800. The word literally means ""great O"" (""ō mega"", mega meaning ""great""), as opposed to omicron, which means ""little O"" (""o mikron"", micron meaning ""little""). In phonetic terms, the Ancient Greek Ω is a long open-mid ""o"" , comparable to the vowel of British English ""raw"". In Modern Greek, Ω represents the , the same sound as omicron. The letter omega is transcribed ""ō"" or"
"formatting to indicate the style of text. Omega Omega (capital: Ω, lowercase: ω; Greek ὦ, later ὦ μέγα, Modern Greek ωμέγα) is the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numeric system/Isopsephy (Gematria), it has a value of 800. The word literally means ""great O"" (""ō mega"", mega meaning ""great""), as opposed to omicron, which means ""little O"" (""o mikron"", micron meaning ""little""). In phonetic terms, the Ancient Greek Ω is a long open-mid ""o"" , comparable to the vowel of British English ""raw"". In Modern Greek, Ω represents the , the same sound as omicron."
"""B"" (as in the hexadecimal and vigesimal), ""T"" and ""E"" (initials of Ten and Eleven), ""X"" and ""Z"". Some employ Greek letters such as δ (standing for Greek δέκα 'ten') and ε (for Greek ένδεκα 'eleven'), or τ and ε. Frank Emerson Andrews, an early American advocate for duodecimal, suggested and used in his book ""New Numbers"" an X (from the Roman numeral for ten) and a script E (ℰ, ). The Dozenal Society of Great Britain proposes a rotated digit two 2 for ten and a reversed or rotated digit three 3 for eleven. This notation was introduced by"
"simply ""o"". As the last letter of the Greek alphabet, Omega is often used to denote the last, the end, or the ultimate limit of a set, in contrast to alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet. Ω was not part of the early (8th century BC) Greek alphabets. It was introduced in the late 7th century BC in the Ionian cities of Asia Minor to denote the long half-open [ɔː]. It is a variant of omicron (Ο), broken up at the side (), with the edges subsequently turned outward (, , , ). The Dorian city of Knidos"
"R R (named ""ar/or"" ) is the 18th letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. The original Semitic letter may have been inspired by an Egyptian hieroglyph for ""tp"", ""head"". It was used for by Semites because in their language, the word for ""head"" was ""rêš"" (also the name of the letter). It developed into Greek 'Ρ' (""rhô"") and Latin R. The descending diagonal stroke develops as a graphic variant in some Western Greek alphabets (writing ""rho"" as ), but it was not adopted in most Old Italic alphabets; most Old Italic alphabets show variants"
"F F (named ""ef"" ) is the sixth letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. The origin of 'F' is the Semitic letter ""vâv"" (or ""waw"") that represented a sound like or . Graphically it originally probably depicted either a hook or a club. It may have been based on a comparable Egyptian hieroglyph such as (transliterated as ḥ(dj)): T3 The Phoenician form of the letter was adopted into Greek as a vowel, ""upsilon"" (which resembled its descendant 'Y' but was also the ancestor of the Roman letters 'U', 'V', and 'W'); and, with another"
"first and last letters of the English alphabet, as alpha and omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. As of August 2, this was confirmed as the website has changed linking to a screen asking the following: Clicking ""No"" takes you back to the original site with the puzzles. Clicking ""Yes"" takes you to the new official Alpha Omega website. EHWR has seen much coverage online as well as coverage in USA Today, Forbes Magazine and the LA Times. While most have been unable to provide definitively new information, they have largely served to spread notice"
"the normal Greek letters, with markup and formatting to indicate text style. Sigma Sigma (uppercase Σ, lowercase σ, lowercase in word-final position ς; ) is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 200. When used at the end of a word (when the word is not all caps), the final form (ς) is used, e.g. (Odysseus); note the two sigmas in the center of the name, and the word-final sigma at the end. The shape and alphabetic position of sigma is derived from Phoenician shin 𐤔 . The name"